(rshsdepot) FW: Disappearing railroad stations in northeastern Montana

[MCamp_@_utnet.utoledo.edu]

Please help by responding to kahampton_@_state.mt.us

Thanks Mark J. Camp
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> From: 	Hampton, Kate
> Sent: 	Friday, March 15, 2002 12:59 PM
> To: 	'mcamp_@_geology.utoledo.edu'
> Subject: 	Disappearing railroad stations in northeastern Montana
> 
> Dear Railroad Station HIstorical Society,
> 
> My name is Kate Hampton, and I am the National Register Program
> Coordinator
> at the Montana SHPO.  Recently I was contacted by a gentleman in
> Homestead
> Montana inquiring about the eligibilty status of the Burlington
> Northern rr
> station there.  It has long been abandoned, and the BN is planning to
> tear
> the building down due to the liability.  Although the station was
> found to
> be eligible for the National Register, because no federal or state
> money or
> permits are required for the demolition, we have no say in what the BN
> chooses to do with the building.  The man in Homestead is interested
> in
> saving the building - possibly moving it and using it as an antique
> store.
> When we called the BN, they said that they were willing to give away
> the
> building.  They also let us know that they planned to demolish several
> other
> abandoned stations across the "High Line" ( the northern tier of
> Montana).
> 
> I was hoping that your organization may have some information
> regarding ways
> to preserve these buildings - including any grant information or
> articles on
> how to use the station space as a museum or community center.  I would
> like
> to share some of this information with the communites that will be
> affected
> by the BN's decision.
> 
> Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> Cordially,
> 
> Kate Hampton
> Montana State HIstoric Preservation Office
> 
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