. >> mayor diana solle watched over time as the population dropped from 5,000 to almost half that. >> this was just such a nice town, a great place to raise your kids. it became a ghost town. >> deer lodge was on amtrak's north coast hiawatha line connecting chicago to seattle. it is just one of more than a hundred places that have lost passenger service. long gone too are visitors supporting the town's old west museum, restaurants or traveling to the rocky and bitterroot mountains. >> this is my heritage. it's my dad and grandpa ran these. >> terry jennings is on a mission to bring passenger rail service back here and across southern montana. >> this is actually where you used to stand and wait for the train. >> he is director of the big sky passenger rail authority, which has a plan and political support. >> it's going to happen. i'm very confident in that. and i would say, you know, best case, three years. >> in washington d.c., jim mathews, the krea of the rail passengers association is helping. a lobbyist reading the moment. >> president biden's nickname is amtrak joe. how palpab

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