After spending most of the Summer underwater, railroads near the Missouri river are returning to more normal service levels.

But as the waters recede, Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway are lifting shipping embargoes and getting back to business as usual. The process is complicated and certainly not cheap — BNSF expects to spend more than $300 million to get its lines back in shape — but both railroads say they expect to wrap up all the flood-related work this fall.
For Omaha-based Union Pacific, the biggest problems were on the line between Omaha and the Kansas City area and the line between Kansas City and Jefferson City, Mo. About 13 miles of tracks around the Leavenworth, Kan., area were underwater for 26 days, and more than 21 miles were underwater on the Missouri line for just over three weeks. Trains started moving on both of those lines in late July.

For more information, read the full article in the Omaha World-Herald.