Great Falls-Helena BNSF UFA ?

[nanaimo73]

The BNSF map shows the ex GN line from Helena to Great Falls Montana as a dashed line. Is it now closed and up for abandonment ?

www.bnsf.com/tools/reference/division_maps/div_mt.pdf

[VerMontanan]

Not posted for abandonment yet, but out of service between Great Falls and Ulm due to sink holes. The line has no intermediate customers, but BNSF cars take a lengthy detour route between Great Falls and Helena via Laurel. This line, into the early 1990s used to see one big train in each direction....traffic enroute from Canada at Sweet Grass enroute to the UP at Silver Bow. This has largely been lost to the CP-UP interchange at Eastport/Kingsgate.