The few blue collar jobs lost were more than made up by the Montana Rail Link, which has something like 1200 jobs, and that's a lot of stable blue collar jobs, directly connected to the BNSF.

Missoula had a book written about it questioning how much "justice" exists in the town. Apparently the legal system in Montana is broken. The university suffered a huge drop in enrollment concurrent with that because women feel it's no longer safe. A school overrun by drunken football fans. The whole place is an embarrassment to the nation.