Joso Tucannon Starbuck Pomeroy Lapwai Sweetwater Bundy Nucrag Craig Jct. Craigmont Ferdinand Camas Prairie in the 1990s


Illustration by Otto M. Vondrak and Bob Gallegos. Not all lines and stations shown. Not an official map. ©2017 White River Productions


pictures probably would not turn out, but the effort felt like a good one. Since I was roughing it, I finally crawled into my car’s back seat for the night and hoped for a good chase up the 2nd Subdivision to Grangeville the next day. I slept the night away under green mercury vapor lamps shining on idling BN 2891, 3503, the rotary snow plow, and the UP power from the logger. I awoke early Friday morning around


5:30 a.m. After milling around the yard taking sunrise pictures, I noticed BN 428 with caboose BN 10122 once again


heading off to work the PFI mill. The UP power was being put together for the Grangeville Local with UP 2030 on the point followed by 2060, 2061, and 2378. Caboose BN 12571 would bring up the rear as it did from the Headquarters Branch the day before. Concerned about getting the shot at Spalding, I headed east long before I thought I needed to. Good thing I did. While staking out a spot on the hill-


side above Spalding, I was shocked to hear a train horn sounding just out of view. My spot was a good one so I stayed


Cottonwood Fenn Grangeville


put as the Grangeville Local eased to the switch, then rolled through the wye at 10:24 a.m. A good runby was made at Lapwai nine minutes later. The sun was perfect, the weather was perfect, I had a full tank of gas, lots of Kodachrome to burn through, and I was chasing a train 3,000 feet up Lapwai Canyon on a branchline that had 14 miles worth of 3 percent grade and 45 trestles. I could not believe this was happening. A vermilion red-painted Great North-


ern 40-foot boxcar was parked at Culde- sac, just past milepost 12. In 1996, that


45 Nezperce Reubens Pardee Tramway Kamiah


Kooskia Stites


0 5 MILES Indian Orofino Greer 10


Crum 15


BN - Burlington Northern CSP - Camas Prairie Railroad NEZP - Nezperce Railroad NP - Northern Pacific UP - Union Pacific


Truax Bishop


Headquarters Summit


Revling Jaype


Haley


Cow Creek Rudo


Cedar Canyon CSP


Konkolville Ahsahka Peck Lenore Fir Bluff Cherrylane


Myrtle Arrow


Spalding Gurney Forebay Almota CSP Big George Agatha


Rooney Omill


Penawawa Peyton


Central Ferry Ridpath Flagpoe Riparia Ayer Jct.


Moses


Alpowia Wilma


Lewiston Transfer


Jacques Culdesac


BN NP


NEZP


CSP


UP


UP


UP


UP


NP


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