Download or read book Defunct Idaho Railroads written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad, Burlington Northern Railroad, List of Idaho railroads, Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, Utah and Northern Railway, Oregon Short Line Railroad, Spokane International Railroad, Oregon, Washington and Idaho Railroad, Camas Prairie Railroad, Lake Creek and Coeur d'Alene Railroad, Idaho Northern Railroad. Excerpt: The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was a railway that operated in the west along the Canadian border of the United States. Construction began in 1870 and the main line opened all the way from the Great Lakes to the Pacific when former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in central Montana on Sept. 8, 1883. The railroad served a large area, including extensive trackage in the states of Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. In addition the company had international lines to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The company was headquartered first in Brainerd, Minnesota, then in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In 1970 it merged with other lines to form the Burlington Northern Railroad. Map of NPR Land Grant, c1890The Northern Pacific Railway Company was chartered by Congress on July 2, 1864; it was formed with the goal of connecting the Great Lakes with Puget Sound on the Pacific, opening vast new lands for farming, ranching, lumbering and mining, and linking Washington and Oregon to the rest of the country. It was granted some 47 million acres (190,000 km ) of land in exchange for building rail transportation to an undeveloped territory. Josiah Perham (for whom Perham, Minnesota, is named) was elected its first president on December 7, 1864. For the next six years, backers of the...
Download or read book The Camas Prairie written by Hal Riegger and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railroad at Pocatello written by Thornton Waite and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pocatello was founded as a station on the narrow-gauge Utah and Northern Railway in 1878, and it has been a railroad town ever since. Passenger and freight trains arrived and departed in all four directions of the compass, 24 hours a day. The Union Pacific also built extensive shops at Pocatello, where railroad equipment was serviced, maintained, and repaired. In addition, refrigerator cars were iced from a large icehouse, and railroad ties were treated with preservative at a tie plant. The advent of the automobile, improved roads, new technologies, and the introduction of the diesel-electric locomotives all combined to change the railroad industry, affecting Pocatello in many ways. Passenger trains were discontinued, the steam-locomotive-servicing facilities were closed, and shop buildings were torn down. However, the railroad in Pocatello remains a vital part of the local scene today, with freight trains continuing to run through the city day and night.
Download or read book Oregon and Idaho Railroad written by Oregon and Idaho Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1908* with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defunct Oregon Railroads written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, List of Oregon railroads, Burlington Northern Railroad, Red Electric, Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, Oregon Steam Navigation Company, Nevada-California-Oregon Railway, Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, Oregon Eastern Railway, Oregon Central Railroad, Oregon and California Railroad, Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway, Sumpter Valley Railway, Oregon Short Line Railroad, Oregon Electric Railway, Great Southern Railroad, Oregon Pacific Railroad, Mount Hood Railway and Power Company, Columbia Southern Railway, Malheur Valley Railway, Columbia River and Oregon Central Railroad, Oregonian Railway, Longview, Portland and Northern Railway, Great Western Railway of Colorado, Dayton, Sheridan and Grande Ronde Railroad, Modoc Northern Railroad, Umatilla Central Railroad, Portland and Willamette Valley Railway. Excerpt: The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was a railway that operated in the west along the Canadian border of the United States. Construction began in 1870 and the main line opened all the way from the Great Lakes to the Pacific when former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in central Montana on Sept. 8, 1883. The railroad served a large area, including extensive trackage in the states of Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. In addition the company had international lines to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The company was headquartered first in Brainerd, Minnesota, then in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In 1970 it merged with other lines to form the Burlington Northern Railroad. Map of NPR Land Grant, c1890The Northern Pacific Railway Company was chartered by Congress on July 2, 1864; it was formed with the...
Download or read book Railroads Through the Coeur D Alenes written by John V. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spokane Falls and Idaho Railroad Company First Mortgage written by Spokane Falls and Idaho Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1888* with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book White Pine Route written by Thomas E. Burg and published by Museum of North Idaho Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington, Idaho and Montana (WI&M) Railway was built in 1905-1907 to access the world's finest stand of white pine. The fifty-mile line from Palouse, Washington, to Bovill, Idaho, was the Potlatch Lumber Company's conveyance for timber to mill, cut lumber to outside connections, and the artery of commerce for the region. The road carried so much white pine that it adopted the nickname, the White Pine Route. White Pine Route tells the history of the WI&M through its independent period (1905-1962), as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Milwaukee Road (1962-1980), as the WI&M Branch of the Burlington Northern (1980-1996), and as the WI&M Industrial Lead of the Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad (1996-present). Part II documents WI&M rolling stock, from its initial steam power and logging locomotives of the Potlatch Lumber Company, through its railcars carrying passengers, mail, and express from the Depression until the end of passenger traffic in 1955, to its diesel era. Railroad structures and logging operations of the Potlatch Lumber Company are covered. Over 400 photographs, maps, equipment roster, index and bibliography
Download or read book Idaho s Payette River Railroads written by Barton Jennings and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is is written for those who want to know more about the Payette and Idaho Northern branches of the Oregon Short Line, later Union Pacific, and today the Idaho Northern & Pacific. It is based upon a route history written for an all-day exploration of the railroad between Payette and Cascade, conducted using a charter passenger train, and helps to answer the question "Where are we and what once happened here?" The Payette and Idaho Northern branches started as efforts to reach farms and forests along the Payette River in Idaho. The rail line eventually reached far into the Payette National Forest, serving as a conduit for the movement of timber and lumber, livestock, and agricultural products. Today, parts of the line have been abandoned, but much of it is still owned and operated by the Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad. This book provides information on the railroad's history, as well as a mile-by-mile route guide.
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Download or read book TREAS VALLEYS ELECTRIC RAILWAY written by Barbara Perry Bauer and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idaho's Treasure Valley, named for the gold and silver once mined in the area, encompasses Ada and Canyon Counties in the southwest corner of the state. Boise City was founded in 1863 when the US Army built a fort at the crossroads of the Oregon Trail and the road to the Boise Basin gold mines. Boise soon became the major distribution center for supplies and fresh food for miners. By 1890, with the development of agriculture and the expansion of the railroad, towns stretched west along the Boise River to the Oregon border. A boom in the early 20th century was due in part to the electric railway, a modern transportation system linking Boise to the communities of Meridian, Eagle, Nampa, Caldwell, and Middleton. The electric railway era lasted from 1891 to 1928 and supported the growth of neighborhoods and communities, inspired the creation of local parks, and provided recreation and entertainment opportunities to rural and urban residents.
Download or read book Railroad Vision written by Wendy Burton and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegant volume celebrates the 75th anniversary of Trains Magazine, the premier publication in its field.
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Download or read book The Milwaukee Road in Idaho written by Stanley W. Johnson and published by Museum of North Idaho Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Milwaukee Road in Idaho: A Guide to Sites and Locations is a detailed listing of notable sites and former locations of the Milwaukee Road in Idaho including both the east-west main line and all the branch lines. Tunnels, trestles, stations, sidings, historical event locations, and disaster sites are all included. It contains specific data for locating each site or location, relevant background information, geographical data, historical explanations and first-hand descriptions obtained through on-site visits by the author, consultations with former Milwaukee railroaders, civil engineers, historians, pioneers and the descendants of many of those who worked on these right-of-ways. Railroad milepost data, site elevations, and trail and road locations are also included. The book was designed to be a field guide for those who traverse any part of The Route of the Hiawatha that crosses Idaho, and notes relevant features of that USFS hiking and biking trail. Topographic quadrangle map references are noted. Useful appendices include chronological notations, a resource bibliography, and an index. It is accurate and detailed, yet readable, and of interest even to the casual railroad fan or amateur historian. Both famous and obscure sites are noted and described, places active right up to the time of the Milwaukee's demise, as well as those from the earliest days of the railroad. The book covers in detail the discovery and location of sites long a mystery including two missing tunnels, a mysterious concrete arch bridge, several old station sites, and the exact location of an historic old logging spur. It will be an extremely valuable handbook for the railroad researcher, railroad modeler, historian, and for anyone who enjoys hiking through or reading about the historic middle panhandle of Idaho.
Download or read book Railroad at Pocatello written by Thornton Waite and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pocatello was founded as a station on the narrow-gauge Utah and Northern Railway in 1878, and it has been a railroad town ever since. Passenger and freight trains arrived and departed in all four directions of the compass, 24 hours a day. The Union Pacific also built extensive shops at Pocatello, where railroad equipment was serviced, maintained, and repaired. In addition, refrigerator cars were iced from a large icehouse, and railroad ties were treated with preservative at a tie plant. The advent of the automobile, improved roads, new technologies, and the introduction of the diesel-electric locomotives all combined to change the railroad industry, affecting Pocatello in many ways. Passenger trains were discontinued, the steam-locomotive-servicing facilities were closed, and shop buildings were torn down. However, the railroad in Pocatello remains a vital part of the local scene today, with freight trains continuing to run through the city day and night.
Download or read book Sun Valley Idaho written by Union Pacific Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1938* with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
