Hi all I just joined this group, I am on several others. I am looking at gathering info on the various log and chip cars used in the NW. Thanks Albert Spor ...
From the Mar 1951 Lewiston phone book & 1952 NP industry guide: Snow Crop Marketers, Division of Clinton Foods... By 1967, from the '67 NP industry guide, it...
Matt Sugerman wrote --> Stinkin' hot, TX <- Ole Dan and I can speak to the fact that working summers in the pulp and paper mill in Lewiston gives literal...
OK - Since I started the thread here is the information that sparked the question. Disclaimer: As I research the NP (with a VERY soft spot for the CSP), the...
Hi everybody, I am new to this group. I am living in Germany and work as general manager for one of our important German railroad divisions in Munich. But my...
Ditto! Neat stuff! As an aside, I was going through a box of old AFEs Dave Sprau passed me last night and found one on a Sawdey and Hunt cold storage warehouse...
Chris, ... You probably know that the 2nd Sub/Grangeville line is abandoned and being used for car storage. They have about 15 miles of cars stored on the...
Thank you, Jim! I will let you know, when I am arr. in Lewistown. Maybe someone has the time and interest to share some railfanning together overthere. Chris...
Just a thumbnail. Sorry for the formatting, but it's Excel to email (nasty). Hopefully taking the data to a generic text editor like Notepad should clean...
Thanks for all the info. Just another question: Recently I saw a picture of an Black Widow F-Unit around Palouse. Could anyone maybe provide me with...
Yes, the 6304 is still working here. WIR has a lease on that one, and I heard they just signed a one year least for its sister 6311. I'm not sure if the 6304...
I had heard the WIR was storing the unit, and that part of the storage agreement said they could use it. Regardless, it is back in the Palouse for now. I also...
... The railroad using the F-units is the Washington and Idaho, and they operate the former NP P&L Branch from Marshall Washington near Spokane south to Moscow...
I am riding my motorcycle to my 40 year high school class reunion in Lewiston. My plan is to depart for Lewiston on Thursday (7/24). The first reunion...
When I was chasing the f-unit back in March he stopped and chatted with us for a couple of minutes. Really nice guy and very friendly to railfans. He usually...
Actually I checked out the lines around Palouse yesterday but could not see a single operating train there. And I could not find the F-Unit too. Well, to bad....
They are pretty slow on the Palouse right now. Since most, if not all, traffic is fertilizer etc to Wilson, that is seasonal. I expect it to pick up again in...
... to pick ... trying ... Mike and group, We ran a motorcar excursion last week on the W&I along with a fund raiser for the depot at Potlatch. Stan and Jeremy...
Thanks Jim! I was at the benefit and did a speeder ride from Potlatch to Kennedy Ford with the family - that was a blast. But we didn't see any of the other ...
I am riding my motorcycle to my 40 year high school class reunion this coming weekend (7/25-27) in Lewiston. My plan is to depart for Lewiston this Thursday...
Bill, That's quite a bike you have there. A friend of mine used to have a 'Duck', but somebody decided to use it as a speed bump and ran him down at high...
(While not railroad related, this is at least about a town on the former 4th Sub.) My wife has a habit of checking our morning paper first thing for the ...
My information may/probably is out of date but from what I remember from my last visit to Headquarters there was a weather station setup in the parking lot...