Since the debut of the program in May 1991, the Backroads crew has produced 29 half-hour episodes that air regularly on Montana PBS. The series has traveled across the state and visited its unique people and places.
William Marcus takes us in hand to meet a Big Timber man who works on a minute level, follow a group of seniors as they beautify a stretch of highway in northwest Montana, hitch a ride on the Orphan Girl Express at the World Museum of Mining in Butte, unwind in Helena with a man who restores wind-up phonographs and storm the castle in White Sulphur Springs. Produced by KUFM-TV/Montana PBS, UM-Missoula.
Backroads of Montana - Program Updates Episode Thirteen “FlatheadLake to the CrazyMountains” (2000) – The Orphan Girl Express Tour train at the MiningMuseum in Butte was discontinued but the museum itself is still open.