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Idaho Northern Railroad: UP: 1906 1910 Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company: Idaho Northern Railway: UP: 1897 1912 Oregon Short Line Railroad: Idaho Southern Railroad: 1908 1916 N/A Idaho and Washington Northern Railroad: MILW: 1907 1916 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Idaho and Western Railway: MILW: 1909 1912
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This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
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The Idaho side of the railroad started out as the Idaho Northern Railway which was built starting in 1900 from Nampa, Idaho to Emmett, Idaho with the line later being extended in 1912 to 1914 to Smiths Ferry, Idaho and eventually McCall, Idaho. Separately from the Idaho Northern, in 1902 the Payette valley railroad built a 30-mile-long (48 km ...
In the United States, railroads are designated as Class I, Class II, or Class III, according to size criteria first established by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1911, and now governed by the Surface Transportation Board (STB). The STB's current definition of a Class I railroad was set in 1992, that being any carrier earning annual ...
By the time Idaho was admitted to the Union as the 43rd state in 1890, a further eight counties had been created, bringing the total to 18. After Canyon, Fremont and Bannock Counties had been created, Alturas and Logan Counties were merged to form Blaine County in March 1895; Lincoln County was formed out of Blaine County later the same month ...
About 700 railroads operate common carrier freight service in the United States. There are about 160,141 mi (257,722 km) of railroad track in the United States, nearly all standard gauge . Reporting marks are listed in parentheses.