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Idaho's Panhandle Railroad: July 2012
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Modeling Lewiston, Idaho, on the Camas Prairie Railroad in the Summer of 1965. Stencil on the side of a BN caboose at East Lewiston. Thursday, July 19, 2012. I know this guy named Steve. But boy did I want to run a train badly! My dad had taught me to run trains slowly on our under construction home layout and I would take care of any train I was allowed to run, but who would put their trust in some 7 year old kid? It was a purgatory of sorts, but I made it my own, using the opportunity to learn more abo...
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Idaho's Panhandle Railroad: September 2011
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Modeling Lewiston, Idaho, on the Camas Prairie Railroad in the Summer of 1965. Stencil on the side of a BN caboose at East Lewiston. Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Bridge fire in Lapwai Canyon. A view from across Lapwai Canyon shows the scorched draw where bridge 21.3 once stood. Steve Taulbee photo, September 2, 2011. This close-up view shows all that is left: A few burned bridge timbers and a single piece of rail dangling across the draw. Steve Taulbee photo. September 2, 2011. In 2003, some wood trestles...
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Idaho's Panhandle Railroad: Mill-ing About
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Modeling Lewiston, Idaho, on the Camas Prairie Railroad in the Summer of 1965. Stencil on the side of a BN caboose at East Lewiston. Friday, July 10, 2015. Deadlines are also a great motivator! A friend from half a world away, visiting the Dallas-Fort Worth has certainly inspired progress. Below are some progress pictures. Of note.For anyone who plans to hand lay and spike the rail, the Tightbond glue seen in the right of the photo is not so great for the process. The glue is exceptionally hard, ...I hav...
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Idaho's Panhandle Railroad: February 2015
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Modeling Lewiston, Idaho, on the Camas Prairie Railroad in the Summer of 1965. Stencil on the side of a BN caboose at East Lewiston. Sunday, February 22, 2015. A return to the blogosphere and modeling the NP 114. Hey, it’s been a REALLY long time since I posted anything! Though I have been an inactive blogger, I have not been an inactive modeler. So, I thought I would share some the things I have been working on over the past several months and get back into this whole blogging thing! NP 114, and EMD SW7...
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Idaho's Panhandle Railroad: April 2013
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Modeling Lewiston, Idaho, on the Camas Prairie Railroad in the Summer of 1965. Stencil on the side of a BN caboose at East Lewiston. Tuesday, April 30, 2013. A short progress report. A good friend from Chicago, John Bauer, visited in early April. In addition to being a long time friend, he's also been railroad modeler for many years, modeling the RGS in Sn3. John is also quite the hockey fan (Blackhawks too! John installs one of the 10 Tortoise motors needed for the staging yard ladders. Fortunately,...
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Idaho's Panhandle Railroad: October 2012
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Modeling Lewiston, Idaho, on the Camas Prairie Railroad in the Summer of 1965. Stencil on the side of a BN caboose at East Lewiston. Thursday, October 4, 2012. Modeling Downtown Lewiston, part 2: Using aerial photographs. Previous to this, my data consisted of a birds eye post card picture from 1959, a track map from the 1940's. And some hand drawn maps the late Jim Morefield, Chief engineer for the Camas Prairie Railroad, drew up in the 1980's. 65279;. 65279;. I now understand the arrangement of t...
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Idaho's Panhandle Railroad: January 2011
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Modeling Lewiston, Idaho, on the Camas Prairie Railroad in the Summer of 1965. Stencil on the side of a BN caboose at East Lewiston. Monday, January 17, 2011. The Milwaukee Road in the west has and always will intrigue me due to its quirky operations on the Rocky Mountain and Coast Divisions. When the Hyrail Milwaukee Road Book came out in 1990, I was absolutely hooked! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subject: Camas Prairie Railroad, Lewiston terminal area. Era: August of 1965. Camas Prairie Yahoo Group.
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Idaho's Panhandle Railroad: July 2015
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Modeling Lewiston, Idaho, on the Camas Prairie Railroad in the Summer of 1965. Stencil on the side of a BN caboose at East Lewiston. Sunday, July 12, 2015. After a great push starting in mid March, the railroad became operational in early July. Two local operators, Lance Lassen and Blair Kooistra, and a guest from Australia, John Gillies, attended the first operating session on July 5th. With only Spokane/East staging, Forebay and the PFI mill operational, the theme for the session was that. Magazine tha...
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Idaho's Panhandle Railroad: January 2013
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Modeling Lewiston, Idaho, on the Camas Prairie Railroad in the Summer of 1965. Stencil on the side of a BN caboose at East Lewiston. Wednesday, January 16, 2013. Happy New Year everyone! 2013 promises to be a great year.the year operations will begin on Idaho's Panhandle Railroad. I'm currently building the transition grade from the staging loop to the visible part of the railroad at Forebay. One concern I have is how many cars a single GP9 can handle up the grade from the staging tracks to Forebay.