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  1. JuDGe3690

    Camas Prairie Railroad Calendar, Posters, etc. (Trestles and such)

    Hello All! Some of you may be aware of the Camas Prairie Railroad near Lewiston, Idaho, founded as a joint Northern Pacific-Union Pacific venture around the turn of the 20th century. Its Second Subdivision, which climbs more than 3,000 feet from Spalding (east of Lewiston) to Grangeville...
  2. Spring In The Idaho Panhandle

    Spring In The Idaho Panhandle

    BNSF 5919 leads a westbound Unit Coal Train across the Idaho Panhandle.It is approaching the Public Access Road Crossing to the Trestle Creek Recreation Area at MP 106.4 on the MRL 4th Sub.
  3. ClimbingThe Westbound Grade At Naples Idaho

    ClimbingThe Westbound Grade At Naples Idaho

    BNSF 5963 leads its long loaded westbound grain train as it climbs the westbound grade at Naples,Idaho.The three AC units take the grade in stride.There are an ES44AC and AC4400CW up front and a DPU AC4400CW pusher on the rear.
  4. BNSF 4086

    BNSF 4086

    BNSF C44-9W 4086 leads an Eastbound Z train at East Algoma, near Sandpoint Idaho, at track speed. The train will soon cross the long bridge at Sandpoint.
  5. Sandpoint, ID

    Sandpoint, ID

    Westbound loaded grainer crosses Lake Pend Oreille, one of four that headed west that morning!
  6. A Sunny Spring Day In The Idaho Panhandle

    A Sunny Spring Day In The Idaho Panhandle

    BNSF 5092 leads its eastbound stack train thru Naples,ID on a sunny spring day in the Idaho Panhandle.
  7. Loop Creek Trestles

    Loop Creek Trestles

    Kelly Creek trestle #220, viewed from Turkey Creek trestle #224. Loop Creek valley- Adair ID. Thanks to The Milwaukee Road - Lines West for location info for Tunnels #25 & #26. http://asciibaron.dyndns.org/MILW/?page_id=6
  8. Union Pacific Local northbound thru Naples,Idaho

    Union Pacific Local northbound thru Naples,Idaho

    UP 1229 with its short manifest passes thru Naples,Idaho servicing customers along the UP Spokane Sub between Sandpoint and Moyie Springs Idaho.
  9. Crossing Deep Creek and Old US Highway 2

    Crossing Deep Creek and Old US Highway 2

    BNSF 5354 leads an eastbound revenue freight over Deep Creek and Old US Highway 2 near Burns,and Deep Creek,Idaho.
  10. Power In The Shower

    Power In The Shower

    With some blue sky to the north towards Bonners Ferry,UP 8268 leads four SD9043s and their southbound manifest thru a rain shower at Naples Idaho,on the UP Spokane Sub.
  11. I want to be an ALCo when I grow up

    I want to be an ALCo when I grow up

    UP 8275 on the point of a southbound manifest makes like an ALCO as it climbs the grade at Naples,Idaho.
  12. Working At 32nd Street

    Working At 32nd Street

    NS 2383 SW1500 sub-lettered for the CNOTP hauls a string of cars past the 27th St. Interlock under the Red Mountain Expressway and heads toward Sloss Furnace and 32nd Street, a GREAT place to shoot the NS.
  13. WAMX 3006

    WAMX 3006

    The former Eastern Idaho 2274 GP30 built in April 1962 as the Reading 5506. Later, to be renumbered the 3606 and ending up with Conrail as the 2174 before ending up with the Eastern Idaho Railroad. Seen on the NS P Line (Central of Georgia) in Camp Hill, AL. See video of this unit @...
  14. Bountiful Grain & Craig Mountain RR - Idaho

    Bountiful Grain & Craig Mountain RR - Idaho

    BGCM RR's "Kooskia Turn"exits Tunnel 2 on the former Camas Prairie RR's 1st Sub.
  15. Dust Storm!

    Dust Storm!

    Every Summer Eastern Washington and parts of Idaho endure a dust storm or two. As witnessed by the crew of this westbound at Hauser, Idaho. Dust storms are nasty, they leave a gritty taste in your mouth, and irritates your eyes.
  16. Working LaGrande

    Working LaGrande

    An Idaho Northern unit switches in the yard at LaGrande.
  17. STMA 501 hammers across the Pedee Trestle

    STMA 501 hammers across the Pedee Trestle

    St. Maries River Railroad #501 hammers with all she's got on the stiff grade across the Pedee Trestle. There is quite a grade on the this ex-MILW mainline between St. Maries and Plummer, Idaho.
  18. POVA Flyer

    POVA Flyer

    The Pend Oreille flying westbound on the ex-GN mainline west of Sandpoint, ID.
  19. Pack River Fill

    Pack River Fill

    Eastbound train #24 beats the setting sun across Pack River fill, Idaho, just east of Sandpoint on the MRL.
  20. Silverwood Central

    Silverwood Central

    Here is the Silverwood Central RR at the Silverwood Amusement Park in Northern Idaho.


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