EAST GLACIER - Summer sunlight hammered hard and hot against the twin tracks, waves of heat rising silently, like watered-down smoke from shining steel rails. Bob Winkenweder sat calmly in the stifling quiet, watching the empty tracks from a shaded bench. He flicked some ash from a cigarette.

HELENA - Amtrak's Empire Builder passenger route may cut its stops in Montana if the state does not agree to help pay to support the service under a Bush administration plan that U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta promoted Tuesday. Gov.

HELENA -Amtrak's Empire Builder passenger railroad may cut its stops in Montana if the state does not agree to pay an unknown amount of money to support the service under a Bush administration plan U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta promoted Tuesday. Gov.

WHITEFISH - Politicians from both sides of the tracks are working to derail a White House budget that offers nothing for Amtrak and would effectively scuttle the nation's passenger rail service into a financial siding.