Although a freight train makes an appearance in the clip (looks like visiting power on Rocky's Road: with only seven major railroads and three or four types of diesel in common use, power-swapping is straightforward these days) there's no mention of the Empire Builder, which, when it's on time, calls in the middle of the day in both directions. The Builder also calls at Wolf Point (ranked third) and California Zephyrs roll through Battle Mountain, Nevada (ranked fifth).
The newsies also pay a visit to the local watering hole, a microbrewery called Busted Knuckle, which appears to be a reference to an occupational hazard facing truck mechanics, although "Brewing on the Hi-Line" could be a railroad reference, and a train dispatcher might want to be wary of a freight crew radioing in, "We have a busted knuckle, going to need a dog-catch crew."
There also is a regional-service air carrier, offering twice-daily trips to Billings.
The algorithm by which Post reporters came up with Glasgow originated in Oxford University's Malaria Atlas Project, an attempt to understand the relationships among inter alia proximity to thickly settled areas and availability of medical care. The algorithms still require work, when it comes to "middle of nowhere." "Five miles on a dirt road in the Montana Rockies isn’t equivalent to five miles on a state highway in Illinois farm country." Whoever wrote that never drove on an Illinois state highway during planting, fertilizing, or harvest time.
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