Hi Folks, Just got this note from a friend on the WI&M List, and I thought some of you might be interested. -Jim Forwarded Message: ... a photo of Nezperce...
Good afternoon everyone, As I understand, the GNR derailed some jumbo covered hoppers loaded with canola seed last night on the inbound trip from Kooskia. I ...
Hi Everybody, I just signed up for membership. I have followed the messages for a couple months, and find this group very informative. Although I live in...
... Welcome to the list! Glad to hear that you've got something out of the conversations, even though it's been a little slow recently. Best Regards, Jim...
Jim, Thanks for the update. I hear that Watco has a couple of covered hoppers on the ground between Pullman and Colfax too. Don't know when that happened,...
I wrote ---> I just experienced this frustration on another site of which I am moderator. Try the click and drag method, but only do one photo at time and...
Group Well, September was the target date but due to numerous circumstances this is not happening. Rick had (maybe still has) a comupter problem (no email),...
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Hello all, I nosed around and was told the derailment was probably caused by harmonic rocking. The first impact marks on the ties was about a foot west of a...
... No, I haven't heard anything more or had a chance to ask. Marc Entze noticed them on the ground a week or so ago, but it probably happened some time ago....
... Entze ... happened ... from ... The derailment didn't seem "recent," but I wasn't paying too much attention as I was in a hurry to get to my next photo...
... If you're talking about the hoppers turned over on the opposite side of South Palouse River Road a few miles east of Colfax, those have been there for some...
When I was visiting the EIRR this summer they have some new yellow/black SW types leased from Helm and if you have access to Trainorders you will find a ...
Dave wrote --> If you're talking about the hoppers turned over on the opposite side of South Palouse River Road a few miles east of Colfax, those have been...
List, Just a thought- I have been noticing that WATCO has an Help Wanted Ad for Train Crews in the Lewiston paper this past week. This has me curious enough to...
Mike and group: At this point, I am not sure if any new business has appeared on the first sub that wasn't in the plans when RailNet was operating with the...
... If you consider that Watco bought the CSP without locomotives and that they lost two locomotives in that wreck at Colfax last winter, the new locomotives...
Anyone have the loco numbers of the switchers? Roger B "There were two or three of those switchers roaming around the PCC/GNWR too. One is still in Lewiston...
Have any of the former 2nd sub shippers shown any interest or support in or for the BG&CM R.R.? Is this part of the reason for such a slow startup for BG&CM? ...
... support ... slow ... I hear that Primeland, (former LGG), and Columbia Grain, (former Stegner Grain), are waiting to see proof that something other than ...
A week ago the LLPX 179, wearing a ratty blue paint job, was switching Boise Cascade at Wallula. It has also ruined consists on the Hooper shuttle train and...
Thanks Marc The HLCX 1012 is being released from CEECO in Tacoma and should be going to EIRR/PCC or maybe the Camas lines. Rumors so far. Roger Beckett...
... The other two were/are the HLCX 1012 and 1016. The HLCX 1016 started on the PCC's former P&L and UP lines where it was used as road power and then was...
... 1012, 1015, what's the difference? :) I believe Jim is right, and he probably wrote it down somewhere. The important thing is that they don't appear on...
... I just looked back in the message archives to find the numbers that I originally reported last April. At that time, I didn't have the LLPX unit. Jim D...
... Thanks Jim. My question was inspired by your digitized maps of Craigmont & Grangeville showing a number shippers that were once served. I assume they are...
... assume ... potential ... Grangeville ... was ... I really don't know if the grain potential is there with the barge rates being so low. Malting barley used...
... would ... the ... If BG&CM were to change to common carrier, would a reload at Cottonwood for Bennett require relaying track? If so, then maybe relay to ...
... There are three tracks through Cottonwood and it would depend on the amount of land that BG&CM owns, the number of cars of lumber to be shipped and whether...