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Camas Prairie Railroad
For nearly a century, the railroad descendants of Henry Villard's Northern Pacific and E. H. Harriman's Union Pacific operated an extensive short line network high atop the rolling hills and deep in the forests of northern Idaho's Panhandle. The nearly-300 mile long Camas Prairie Railroad Company was a curious mix of wheat field granger and Northwest logger--a railroad serving farmers of the rich Camas Prairie as well as the timber barons of the Clearwater River and its tributaries. by Blair E. Kooistra
was a 14-mile shortline operating between Walla Walla, Washington and the Oregon border town of Milton-Freewater. Owned for much of its life by Northern Pacific (and later, Burlington Northern), WWV was chartered as a streetcar line in 1905, expanding through the fruit orchards of the southern Walla Walla valley the next year as an interurban. Passenger trains stopped running in 1931, but WWV continued as a freight operation, competing with Union Pacific for fruit and vegetable traffic in busy Milton-Freewater. by Blair E. Kooistra
Info: URL: http://www.wwvrailway.com/camas.htm (Added: 23-Oct-2003)
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Canadian Pacific Railway - Crowsnest Pass
The Canadian Pacific Railway's route through the Crowsnest Pass in southern British Columbia has been a key feature of the province's transportation system for 100 years. Completed in 1898, the Crowsnest railway provided access to large areas of southern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia that had been remote from the developing population centres of western Canada and the northern United States.
Info: URL: http://www.crowsnest.bc.ca/ (Added: 14-Jan-2000)
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