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Milwaukee Road In Idaho by Stanley W Johnson
The Milwaukee Road In Idaho by Stanley W Johnson
Soft Cover
220 pages
Copyright 1997
CONTENTS
Acknowledgementsix
About the Author xii
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Using the Guidebook 1
Chapter 2: The Lay of the Land 6
Chapter 3: Getting There 12
PART 2: SITES ALONG THE RIGHT-OF-WAY
Chapter 4: The Main Line 21
Area 1: St. Paul Pass Sumit to Loop Creek Road Crossing 22
Area 2: Loop No. 2 to Pearson 38
Area 3: Moon Pass Road to East Avery Yard 48
Area 4: Avery to Calder 57
Area 5: Calder to St. Maries Depot 74
Area 6: St. Maries Depot to Plummer Junction 85
Area 7: Plummer Junction to Washington State Line (Southern Route) 96
Area 8: Plummer Junction to Washington State Line (Northern Route) 101
Chapter 5: Elk River Branch Line 105
Area 9: St. Maries to Clarkia 106
Area 10: Clarkia to Elk River 112
Chapter 6: Pend Oreille Branch Line 119
Area 11: Spokane Bridge to Rathdrum 119
Area 12: Rathdrum to Washington State Line 121
Chapter 7: Coeur d'Alene Branch Line 130
Area 13: McGuires to Coeur d' Alene 131
Chapter 8: Loop Creek Valley Road Side Trip 136
Area 14: Pearson to Loop No. 2 Via Loop Creek Road 137
Chapter 9: Bogle Spur Side Trip 149
Area 15: Bogle Spur 151
Chapter 10: Washington, Idaho and Montana Railway 159
Area 16: Purdue to Washington State Line 161
PART 3: APPENDICES
Appendix 1: Area Maps 168
Appendix 2: A Chronological History of the Milwaukee Road in Idaho 202
Appendix 3: Resource Bibliography 208
Index 211
Credits 219
ACKNOWLEDGEMNETS
There were three quite distinct phases in the writing of this guidebook.
The first consisted of identifying, locating and searching out the sites in the course of a number of trips through the areas covered. The second involved assembling and checking the accuracy and authenticity of available information about the sites and their historical significance. Only when the first two phases were substantially completed did the third phase, the actual writing of the manuscript and preparation of maps and diagrams, become the primary focus.
Dozens of people made an important contribution to a particular phase or task. Sometimes it was a brief suggestion, an isolated piece of information, or a motivating word of support. In other instances it was more involved-sets of maps or charts, lists of data, collections of photographs, hand-drawn sketches, or excerpts from personal diaries and memoirs. It is impossible to list each of these individuals since some were and still are essentially unknown-strangers who offered help by the roadside or sent word through a third party while they personally remained unknown to the author. Despite this relative anonymity, I cannot overemphasize the value of these contributions. I wish to duly note that they were fully appreciated, deeply respected, and highly valued-indeed, they were essential to the success of the project.
I must mention a few individually because their effort was more than incidental and their contributions distinctively helpful. These include David Asleson and Jim Penzkover of the U.S. Forest Service, several of the staff of the Mapping Department of Kootenai County, and Bill Taylor of Missoula, Montana, a genuine railroad history buff in every way. Lynette Battles, Lew Stearns, Warren Wing, and Wilbur Whittaker each helped fill gaps in the photographs we were seeking. Frank Kobe provided firsthand knowledge from his career on the Milwaukee and some valuable documents from his own collection. Fern Agte, one of the few remaining genuine pioneers of the St. Joe Valley still with us, graciously shared the story of her family's arrival on horseback and foot to settle in a homesteading cabin almost underneath one of the Milwaukee's tall steel trestles near Chatcolet. She loaned me precious family documents and answered all my prying questions, and invited me to step back into memory by her side as she relived her coming to the St. Joe Valley shortly after the turn of the century.
The people of the U.S. Forest Service were unselfishly supportive in every way possible. They provided file information, background, technical and even physical assistance, as well as unusual access to records, files, and the actual physical sites. In particular I wish to thank Jud Moore of the Missoula office, whose warm and understanding responses to my extensive and repeated inquiries and requests for background information always gave me encouragement; to Jaime Schmidt, an enthusiastic ambassador for the Forest Service; and to the entire staff of the U.S. Forest Service station at Hoyt Flat just outside of Avery, Idaho. Without their very tangible help, this task could not have been completed.
A special note of appreciation is due my editor, Barbara Chamberlain. She is a hardworking and careful professional who combines her skills with warmth and friendliness. It has been a pleasure working with her on this project.
I am most grateful for having had the help in all matters photographic of my late friend, Sam Kimura. He was knowledgeable, patient, properly critical when appropriate, and always motivating. I am sorry he did not live to see the publication of the photographs included in this work.
My three sons, Dennis, Christopher and Timothy, supported and assisted me emotionally through their interest in the project and very tangibly by carrying camera gear, climbing up and down steep hillsides and under bridges, and wading through streams where their not-so-young father found it difficult to go. They also generously shared their time, background knowledge and photographic skills. I am proud to be their father.
Finally, three individuals, each of whom I have come to admire and respect for their quite different personalities, their breadth of knowledge, and their genuine love for the Bitterroots must be mentioned separately because they helped repeatedly in every phase of the project. They offered ideas, gathered data, checked facts, found photographs, and read and re-read the manuscript for accuracy. Whatever mistakes remain are mine, not theirs. I thank Darrel Dewald of Alberton, Montana, who blends his deep reservoir of personal knowledge about the Milwaukee Road in Idaho with a treasure-trove of Milwaukee records, manuals, and photographs. He was very generous in sharing all these with me. I thank Cort Sims of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-a U.S. Forest Service archaeologist-for sharing his professional skills and knowledge, searching out detail background information for me, and doing so with patience and a delightful sense of humor. I thank Wade Bilbrey of Avery, Idaho, who is a totally at-home outdoorsman in these vast forestlands and knows an immense amount of detail about them. He spent hours searching out small bits and pieces of data and literally walking over many of the isolated sites looking for answers to my many questions. I greatly appreciate the help of these three gentlemen, and consider them to be my silent co-authors and my friends.
I have already expressed appreciation for my wife's support by dedicating this book to her, but I want to thank her one more time. Like a well-run railroad, she knows just where she is going, strives to get there smoothly and efficiently, and helps others' journeys to be relaxed and comfortable. She also has a better eye for finding artifacts and shards along the right-of-way than anyone I have ever known. What more could an author of books about railroads ask?
Stanley Johnson Silverdale, Washington October, 1996
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