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Snake River Valley Railroad
The Snake River Valley Railroad built a rail line on the left (southeast) bank of the Snake River between Wallula and Grange City, Washington, United States, a distance of . The company was incorporated in Oregon on March 3, 1898, and opened its line, operated by the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N), on December 1, 1899. It connected to the OR&N at both ends, providing a better route to Spokane than the existing line via Walla Walla. The properties of both companies were conveyed to new Union Pacific Railroad (UP) subsidiary Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company on December 23, 1910. The Snake River Valley Railroad also did some work on the right bank above Riparia for a continuation to Lewiston, Idaho, which was instead completed by the Oregon, Washington and Idaho Railroad. (Between Grange City and Riparia, the OR&N already owned a line, including a bridge at Riparia.) The line between Wallula and Grange City is still operated by the UP as a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rail Line
Rail terminology is a form of technical terminology. The difference between the American term ''railroad'' and the international term ''railway'' (used by the International Union of Railways and English-speaking countries outside the United States) is the most significant difference in rail terminology. These and other terms have often originated from the parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of the world. In English-speaking countries outside the United Kingdom, a mixture of US and UK terms may exist. Various global terms are presented here. Where a term has multiple names, this is indicated. The abbreviation "UIC" refers to standard terms adopted by the International Union of Railways in its official publications and thesaurus. 0–9 A B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewiston, Idaho
Lewiston is a city and the county seat of Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States, in the state's north central region. It is the second-largest city in the northern Idaho region, behind Coeur d'Alene, and ninth-largest in the state. Lewiston is the principal city of the Lewiston, ID-WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Nez Perce County and Asotin County, Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population of Lewiston was 34,203 up from 31,894 in 2010. Lewiston is located at the confluence of the Snake River and Clearwater River, upstream and southeast of the Lower Granite Dam. dams (and their locks) on the Snake and Columbia River, Lewiston is reachable by some ocean-going vessels. of Lewiston (Idaho's only seaport) has the distinction of being the farthest inland port east of the West Coast. The Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport serves the city by air. Lewiston was founded in 1861 in the wake of a gold rush which began the previous year near Pier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Washington (state) Railroads
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List Of Defunct Washington Railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. Common freight carriers *Ballard Terminal Railroad (BDTL) *BNSF Railway (BNSF) *Cascade and Columbia River Railroad , Cascade & Columbia River Railroad (CSCD) (GWRR) *Central Washington Railroad (CWRR) (CBRW) *Columbia Basin Railroad (CBRW) *Columbia and Cowlitz Railway (CLC) (PATR) *Columbia Walla Walla Railroad (CWW) (FTRX) *Eastside Freight Railroad (EFRX) (BDTL) *Frontier Rail (FTRX) *Great Northwest Railroad (GRNW) (WATX) *Kennewick Terminal Railroad (KET) (FTRX) *Kettle Falls International Railway (KFR) *Meeker Southern Railroad (MSN) (BDTL) *Montana Rail Link (MRL) *Mount Vernon Terminal Railroad , Mount Vernon Terminal Railway (MVT) *Olympia and Belmore Railroad (OYLO) (GWRR) *Watco, Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad (PCC) (WATX) *Patriot Rail Company, Patriot Woods Railroad (PAWR) (PATR) *Pend Oreille Valley Railroad (POVA) *Lewis and Clark Railway, Portland Vancouver Junction Rail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riparia Subdivision
''Riparia'' is a genus of passerine birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae. These are small or medium-sized swallows, ranging from in length. They are brown above and mainly white below, and all have a dark breast band. They are closely associated with water. They nest in tunnels which are usually excavated by the birds themselves in a natural sand bank or earth mound. They lay white eggs, which are incubated by both parents, in a nest of straw, grass, and feathers in a chamber at the end of the burrow. Some species breed colonially. The cosmopolitan sand martin is almost completely migratory, breeding across temperate Eurasia and North America and wintering in the tropics. The other species are partial migrants or resident. ''Riparia'' martins, like other swallows, take insects in flight over water, grassland, or other open country. Taxonomy The genus ''Riparia'' was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster in 1817 with the sand martin (''Riparia ripar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayer Junction, Washington
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Spokane, Washington
Spokane ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the Canadian border, west of the Washington–Idaho border, and east of Seattle, along I-90. Spokane is the economic and cultural center of the Spokane metropolitan area, the Spokane–Coeur d'Alene combined statistical area, and the Inland Northwest. It is known as the birthplace of Father's Day, and locally by the nickname of "Lilac City". Officially, Spokane goes by the nickname of ''Hooptown USA'', due to Spokane annually hosting Spokane Hoopfest, the world's largest basketball tournament. The city and the wider Inland Northwest area are served by Spokane International Airport, west of Downtown Spokane. According to the 2010 census, Spokane had a population of 208,916, making it the second-largest city in Washington, and the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinkle, Oregon
Hinkle is an unincorporated community along the Umatilla River in northwestern Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. It is south of Hermiston, near Interstate 84/U.S. Route 30 and Oregon Route 207, within the Pendleton–Hermiston Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is the site of the Union Pacific Railroad's (UP) Hinkle Locomotive Service and Repair Facility, part of the Hinkle Freight Classification Yard. History Hinkle was a railway junction where a cutoff to Boardman rejoined the main line of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company that ran from Umatilla to Huntington. When the cutoff was built in 1915, a station was needed at the junction with the main line, and Joseph T. Hinkle, a prominent local attorney, newspaper editor and politician, sold the railroad a small amount of land for that purpose. The station was named in his honor. According to the compilers of ''Oregon Geographic Names'', the community of Hinkle "languished in obscurity for a third of a century", un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon, Washington And Idaho Railroad
The Oregon, Washington and Idaho Railroad built a rail line along the right (north) bank of the Snake River between Riparia, Washington and Lewiston, Idaho. The company was incorporated in Oregon on August 8, 1903, and began operating its completed line on July 7, 1908, as an operating subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad, which also controlled the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N) through Riparia. A portion of the preliminary work had been done by the Snake River Valley Railroad, which built a completed line along the Snake River below Riparia. Beginning on December 3, 1909, the Camas Prairie Railroad, a joint subsidiary of the OR&N and Northern Pacific Railway (NP), began operating the Oregon, Washington and Idaho Railroad as part of a line between Riparia and Grangeville, Idaho, including segments owned by the NP and subsidiary Clearwater Short Line Railway. On December 23, 1910, the property of the Oregon, Washington and Idaho was conveyed to new Union Pacific su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riparia, Washington
Riparia is an extinct town in Whitman County, in the U.S. state of Washington. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place. A post office called Riparia was in operation between 1882 and 1963. The community most likely took its name from a nearby riparian zone A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream. Riparian is also the proper nomenclature for one of the terrestrial biomes of the Earth. Plant habitats and communities along the river margins and banks .... References Ghost towns in Washington (state) Geography of Whitman County, Washington {{WhitmanCountyWA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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