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From 1998 until January 2016, the INPR operated the Thunder Mountain Line, a tourist railroad between Horseshoe Bend and Cascade. [9] The Thunder Mountain Line offered scenic tours, dinner trains and "river and rail" trips along the Payette River that allowed people to ride a train north and return southward by river raft on the Payette.
Washington and Idaho Railway In 2009, BGCM's owner attempted to purchase a portion of the Arizona and California Railroad , running 49.4 miles (79.5 km) between Rice, California and Ripley, California through Blythe, California from RailAmerica then-recently granted for abandonment, but failed to succeed an offer of financial assistance process.
Craig Mountain Railway: 1921 1965 N/A Craig Mountain Lumber Company's Railway: 1909 1921 Craig Mountain Railway: Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad: NP: 1907 1939 N/A Great Northern Railway: GN GN 1890 1970 Burlington Northern Inc. Idaho Central Railway: UP: 1886 1889 Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway: Idaho Northern Railroad: UP: 1906 1910
Watco purchased the line from Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad. Watco took over operations and leased the line to Union Pacific. Operations for both branches are based at Nampa Yard in Nampa where cars are interchanged to the Union Pacific. As of August 2015, the railroad served around 60 clients and operated once a day on each weekday. [2]
The pass is crossed by a road (Idaho State Highway 29 and Montana Secondary Highway 324) from Leadore, Idaho to Dillon, Montana. Bannock Pass should not be confused with the similarly named Bannack Pass, [ 2 ] about 33 miles (53 km) to the southeast, which is also in the Beaverhead Mountains, on the Montana-Idaho border, and on the Continental ...
The Eastern Idaho Railroad (reporting mark EIRR) commenced on November 21, 1993, as a collection of two disconnected clusters of former Union Pacific (UP) branches. A subsidiary of Watco, EIRR operates two segments that move more than 35,000 carloads per year to the Union Pacific, with interchanges at Idaho Falls on the Northern Segment, and Minidoka on the Southern segment.
The Nezperce & Idaho Railroad (reporting mark NP&I) was an independently owned short line railroad that connected the community of Nezperce to the Camas Prairie Railroad. Primarily used to ship agricultural products it operated from 1910 until 1975, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] it was then used for boxcar storage until the 1980s.
With the discontinuance of the Olympian Hiawatha in 1961, trains No. 15 and 16 continued to operate as an unnamed passenger train between Minneapolis and Deer Lodge, Montana with coaches, a Touralux open-berth sleeper and cafe car. In 1964 it was cut back to a coach-only train to Aberdeen, South Dakota, and completely discontinued on April 17 ...