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Technically, the Pacific Extension begins at Mobridge, South Dakota, if memory recalls. Agriculture pretty much ends there and the railroad enters the Badlands, though in reality farming becomes increasingly thin west of Aberdeen, and by the time you reach Mobridge, it's rangeland and a little bit of hay in the bottomlands. The Milwaukee Road main line west of Ortonville is in service as far west as a connection with BNSF just east of Terry, Montana. BNSF owns it from Appleton west; Twin Cities & Western operates it (more or less) east of Appleton. When I saw it a year ago, it appeared to be used only for car storage east of Granite Falls. Traffic on the BNSF portion is a unit coal train that comes out of the northern Powder River Basin and runs to Big Stone (Milbank), I think not better than once every five days, and grain on demand. That's it. Maybe two trains a day each way. West of Terry, you have to go all the way to St. Maries, Idaho, to find another significant chunk, which is operated by St. Maries River Railroad. Washington Central has another piece in the vicinity of Warden, and that's it.
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