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Greg Maxwell

November 12, 2014 09:54AM

Registered: 13 years ago
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This is typical newspaper hyperbole. I went over this line in the in the 1970s and I wouldn't say it was steep or winding. The main line from Old Mission to Wallace climbs about 600' in twenty odd miles following the Coeur d'Alene River. The line to Burke is steeper, climbing 1,000' in seven or eight miles, but not in the same class as the Uintah.

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Greg Maxwell

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NG mountain railroading in Idaho	bcp	November 10, 2014 07:51PM
Re: NG mountain railroading in Idaho	RDannemann	November 11, 2014 03:51PM
Re: NG mountain railroading in Idaho	jcpatten	November 12, 2014 05:10AM
Re: NG mountain railroading in Idaho	John Liebson	November 12, 2014 07:38AM
Re: NG mountain railroading in Idaho	Greg Maxwell	November 12, 2014 09:54AM
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