The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980
The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980
More than 30 mills have closed in western Montana since 1990, with two more in Missoula County calling it quits this spring.
A BNSF Railway freight train picks up freight cars loaded with plywood at at Weyerhaeuser's mill in Evergreen on April 10, 2024. The mill is one of just a half dozen still operating in western Montana.
Five days a week, a short train rolls out of the rail yard in Whitefish with empty freight cars destined for the Flathead Valley's three surviving wood products mills in Columbia Falls and Evergreen. At one time, short trains like this could be found all over western Montana, serving mills in places like Libby, St. Regis, Darby and Pablo. But today, this is one of the few "local" freights left in...
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