The Milwaukee Road In Idaho - A Guide to Sites and Locations

By Stanley W. Johnson

The Milwaukee Road in Idaho: A Guide to Sites and Locations is a detailed listing of notable sites and former locations of the Milwaukee Road in Idaho including both the east-west main line and all the branch lines. Tunnels, trestles, stations, sidings, historical event locations, and disaster sites are all included. It contains specific data for locating each site or location, relevant background information, geographical data, historical explanations and first-hand descriptions obtained through on-site visits by the author, consultations with former Milwaukee railroaders, civil engineers, historians, pioneers and the descendants of many of those who worked on these right-of-ways. Railroad milepost data, site elevations, and trail and road locations are also included.The book was designed to be a field guide for those who traverse any part of The Route of the Hiawatha that crosses Idaho, and notes relevant features of that USFS hiking and biking trail. Topographic quadrangle map references are noted. Useful appendices include chronological notations, a resource bibliography, and an index.It is accurate and detailed, yet readable, and of interest even to the casual railroad fan or amateur historian. Both famous and obscure sites are noted and described, places active right up to the time of the Milwaukee's demise, as well as those from the earliest days of the railroad.The book covers in detail the discovery and location of sites long a mystery including two missing tunnels, a mysterious concrete arch bridge, several old station sites, and the exact location of an historic old logging spur. It will be an extremely valuable handbook for the railroad researcher, railroad modeler, historian, and for anyone who enjoys hiking through or reading about the historic middle panhandle of Idaho.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964364751
• ISBN13: 9780964364752
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Museum of North Idaho Publications
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"