{"id":133078,"date":"2026-09-03T05:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/09\/03\/sheehy-pushes-federal-support-for-states-passenger-rail-plan\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-09-03T05:13:53","modified_gmt":"2029-02-19T05:13:53","slug":"sheehy-pushes-federal-support-for-states-passenger-rail-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/09\/03\/sheehy-pushes-federal-support-for-states-passenger-rail-plan\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Sheehy Pushes Federal Support  For State\u2019s Passenger Rail Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As airports grow more crowded, U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy told Montana residents  on Wednesday, Aug. 26, that passenger rail could help fuel more tourism  and economic growth in the Big Sky state.<br \/>\n\t  Sheehy, a Republican speaking at the Greater Northwest Rail Summit, also gave an update on legislation that would remove federal match requirements by local governments for long-distance  passenger rail corridors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133325,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133078\/revisions\/133325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133078"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=133078"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=133078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}