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On 23 November 2009, the railroad began operations, running over an 11 miles (18 kilometres) line between Wilder and Caldwell and a 25-mile(40 km) line between Nampa and Boise, with the two lines connected via trackage rights on the Union Pacific. [1] Watco purchased the line from Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad. Watco took over operations ...
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: MILW MILW 1928 1980 St. Maries River Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad: Clearwater Short Line Railway: NP: 1898 1914 Northern Pacific Railway: Clearwater Valley Railroad: UP: 1898 1916 Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company: Coeur d'Alene Railway and Navigation Company: NP: 1886 1897
The INPR leased the UP Boise Branch connecting Boise, Idaho with the Union Pacific main line at Nampa as well as the Wilder branch line from Caldwell, Idaho to Wilder, Idaho starting in 1999 and continuing until 2009. However, the Boise Valley Railroad took over operation in 2009, possibly as a result of the post-housing boom recession. [7] [8]
Bountiful Grain and Craig Mountain Railroad GP9u #1639 powers up to take GP30 #2404 and a load of wood products under the US 95 bridge and down the Clearwater River, Dec. 2, 2013 BGCM operates an ex- ATSF GP30 , numbered as BGCM 2404 ( EMD 27191, 7622-5, April 1962; ex-BNSF 2404; ex-ATSF 2704:2; ex-ATSF 3204; née-ATSF 1204), as well as an EMD ...
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.
A salad of smoked salmon, fresh goat cheese, arugula, cucumber and a dill-lemon dressing helped get a recent Under The Table dinner underway. Amos Rothstein
This was the Union Pacific's first short-line sale. Watco then looked to the West Region, acquiring the Blue Mountain Railroad in 1998, the Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad in 1992 and the Eastern Idaho Railroad in 1993. In 1998, it began operating the Stillwater Central Railroad in Oklahoma and the Timber Rock Railroad in Texas.
Valley Railroad 97 is a preserved 200 class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive, built in November 1923 by the American Locomotive Company's Cooke Works for the Birmingham and Southeastern Railroad, it is preserved and operated by the Valley Railroad.