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The Middle of Nowhere

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  • George KG Offline
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    George K
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    (seen on an Amtrak FB group)

    Welcome to the middle of nowhere, this is it — Glasgow, Montana. Really.
    After much research, the Washington Post in 2018 determined that Glasgow is actually the middle of nowhere.
    Glasgow “is farthest — about 4.5 hours in any direction — from any metropolitan area of more than 75,000 people,” the newspaper determined.
    Glasgow does have an Amtrak stop, and this is what it looked like this afternoon. They have a McDonald’s here, too.

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    I was there in 2018, but on the other side of the train (facing South). I'll bet the "Montana Bar" is lots of fun:

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    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      I'll bet it's what fun there is to be had, yes.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        There are at least 2 trains passing through the Glasgow stock yards in Google Earth, one north the other south, both almost 1.5 miles long. It looks like a nice place.

        See the trains here (zoom in):
        https://www.google.com/maps/@48.1785294,-106.6049283,2248m/data=!3m1!1e3

        That's kind of busy for the middle of nowhere.

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          There are at least 2 trains passing through the Glasgow stock yards in Google Earth, one north the other south, both almost 1.5 miles long. It looks like a nice place.

          See the trains here (zoom in):
          https://www.google.com/maps/@48.1785294,-106.6049283,2248m/data=!3m1!1e3

          That's kind of busy for the middle of nowhere.

          George KG Offline
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          George K
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          @copper said in The Middle of Nowhere:

          both almost 1.5 miles long.

          Yeah, those freights are LONG.

          Empire Builder is only about ¼ mile long.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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