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  • Hi-Line Vintage Motors Museum

    Photo courtesy: Hi-Line Vintage Motors Museum

  • Depot Museum

    Photo courtesy: Depot Museum



Rudyard is on the Hi-Line between Chester and Havre. It is said that it was named for Rudyard Kipling. (from Cheney's Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company) The area now is predominately wheat farms. The railroads were a catalyst for developing the towns along the Hi-Line. Rudyard is a shipping point for the wheat grown in the area.

The town has a wonderful, well-appointed museum in the old train depot. The Depot Museum features local history of the area, including a depot, working windmill, schoolhouse, outhouse, blacksmith shop, tar-paper shack, garage, farm implements and archives with photographs and family histories. A Museum of the Rockies affiliate and a member of the Montana Dinosaur Trail, the Depot Museum's features a number of permanent and changing dinosaur exhibits.

Also while in Rudyard visit the Hi-Line Vintage Motors Museum where vintage automobiles ranging from a 1915 Model T car to 1976 Cadillac El Dorado and 1926-28 pickup trucks are yours to wander around.




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