Her late father, Leon, worked for the Burlington Northern Railroad for 38 years, driving about an hour to and from work each day in southern Washington. Her mother, Anita, was a stay-at-home mom.

A lifelong Butte resident, he worked for the Burlington Northern Railroad after discharge from the service. In 1952 he went to work for the Montana Power Co., covering the streets of Butte as a ...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad workers cut apart overturned train cars after the derailment of 22 cars on a 130-car coal train on Friday, two miles west of Fort ...