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Viewing Album:  WIR on the WI&M
 
By:Maddie Farnsworth
Dates:3/13/2009 - 3/13/2009
Album Info:Got word of a train running on the WI&M branch, so with classes canceled I gave chaise.
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Harvard house track
Title:  Harvard house track
Description:  The siding at Harvard, used to load pole cars and run the power around the train. This is a walking speed onl track.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:12 AM
Location:  Harvard, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
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Views:  240   Comments: 1
Tied down, waiting to go.
Title:  Tied down, waiting to go.
Description:  The power for todays run. WIR GP30 #20.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:12 AM
Location:  Princeton, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  459   Comments: 0
Old trucks one
Title:  Old trucks one
Description:  Some old Milwaukee Road freight trucks, owned I believe by the WI&M Historical Society.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:13 AM
Location:  Potlatch, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  169   Comments: 0
Old trucks two
Title:  Old trucks two
Description:  More old freight trucks, owned by the WI&M Historical Sociality. These have seen better days.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:14 AM
Location:  Princeton, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  145   Comments: 1
Light power east.
Title:  Light power east.
Description:  #20 heads to Harvard to pick up the pole loads.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:14 AM
Location:  Harvard, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  377   Comments: 2
Pole loads west
Title:  Pole loads west
Description:  #20 pulls it's four loads of unfinished power poles west.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:15 AM
Location:  Harvard, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  558   Comments: 3
Nice engineer
Title:  Nice engineer
Description:  The engineer saw the ditch lights were blinding me, so he turned them off. Thanks!
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:17 AM
Location:  Princeton, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  417   Comments: 0
WI&M customers
Title:  WI&M customers
Description:  Bennett lumber, one of two customers that are located on the WI&M.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:17 AM
Location:  Princeton, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  389   Comments: 0
Switching the mill
Title:  Switching the mill
Description:  #20 and crew head into the Bennett mill to pick up some lumber loads.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:18 AM
Location:  Princeton, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  435   Comments: 1
I found a peep hole!
Title:  I found a peep hole!
Description:  #20 and crew head into the Bennett mill to pick up some lumber loads.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:19 AM
Location:  Princeton, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  461   Comments: 1
That'll do #20
Title:  That'll do #20
Description:  Three loads of lumber have joined the poles.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:20 AM
Location:  Princeton, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  412   Comments: 1
Friendly wave
Title:  Friendly wave
Description:  The engineer gives a wave as the train heads to Potlatch.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:20 AM
Location:  Princeton, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  354   Comments: 1
Through Princeton
Title:  Through Princeton
Description:  Once the railroad used to severe a grain mill here, now trains glide through without stopping as the siding had been removed.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:21 AM
Location:  Princeton, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  444   Comments: 1
Neat tree
Title:  Neat tree
Description:  D@mn power lines!
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:22 AM
Location:  Princeton, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  332   Comments: 0
Along the River
Title:  Along the River
Description:  Aproaching Potlatch
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:22 AM
Location:  Potlatch, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  373   Comments: 1
Around the bend
Title:  Around the bend
Description:  Traveling along the Palouse River, coming into Potlatch.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:23 AM
Location:  Potlatch, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  388   Comments: 2
Past and present WI&M power
Title:  Past and present WI&M power
Description:  From 4-6-0's to GP30's the WI&M has seen a lot of diffrent locomotives, but all on the same 70lb rail!
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:24 AM
Location:  Potlatch, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  390   Comments: 1
Tie 'er down
Title:  Tie 'er down
Description:  The crew stopped the train and tied it down in Potlatch, they had work to do elsewhere.
Photo Date:  3/13/2009  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 10:53:11 AM
Location:  Potlatch, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  487   Comments: 2

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