St. Maries River Railroad

Trains Magazine General Discussion
1

Can anyone recall what issue of Trains has the writeup for the St. Maries River RR?

I can’t seem to find the article in my stack and I know I have it.

2

Hmm - I’m having a hard time pinning that one down, too - but try this one:

Upriver from Paradise
signals along MRL’s former Northern Pacific route along the Clark Fork River
by Kelly, Bruce
from Trains March 2000 p. 58
montana MRL semaphore signal

I’m pretty sure it was written by Bruce Kelly - he also described camping with his daughters in that article as I recall - and he checks in here from time to time. So if that’s wrong, he can enlighten us - because other than “brute force” = actually physically looking through all those issues for the article, I’m about ou

3

Thanks, Man. I casually scanned the Table of Contents from '07-'09 but came up empty handed. Then again, I was pressed for time, so it was a rather hasty scan. I’ll look again when I have some more time.

I know I have it somewhere. [(-D]

4

To the best of my knowledge, Trains has never done a feature story on STMA. Kinda sad considering how Kalmbach used to pay special attention to anything of MILW heritage. Kalmbach’s Locomotive magazine did something on it I believe in 2009. Railroads Illustrated covered it last year (I think), and my last feature story on it was back in the June or July 1995 issue of Railfan & Railroad. I’m about 500 miles from home right now, so can’t offer more exact issue dates.

Paul, that story “Upriver From Paradise” covered MRL between St. Regis and Paradise, Montana. Don’t think I had any STMA references in it.

5

Bruce - You’re right, you didn’t - the only references to a “Saint” anything were to the town (?) of St. Regis and the St. Regis River - but that was definitely the article about camping with your daughters ! [swg] Maybe it was in part of another article - or maybe an article about a similar operation out that way . . . ?

  • Paul North.
6

Maybe Sean needed a haircut when I shot he and Shannon back then with the Paradise Local in the background. If I had two daughters, I think the hair on top of my head would be as gray as my beard.

7

That’s it! I knew I saw something about them in print somewhere. Guess I just assumed it was in “Trains”. Thanks!

8

“Good luck with that !” = finding any of those articles, because even with Bruce’s help above, I still can’t find any of them using the “Magazine Index” function here - which is really pretty surprising and disconcerting.

  • Paul North.

P.S. - From Scott Lothes’ “C.V” webpage at - http://www.scottlothes.com/about.htm :

“The St. Maries River Railroad.” (co-author) Locomotive 2008. 56-61.

From http://usedmagz.com/cgi-bin/usedmagz_store/agora.cgi?p_id=10203&ppinc=search2&xm=on

June 1995 Railfan & Railroad (Hey, that cover looks familiar - I might have this one !)

From http://www.whiteriverproductions.com/shopexd.asp?id=110

July 2010 Railroads Illustrated - St. Maries River Railroad: Last of the Loggers • by Robert Scott — Along the St. Maries River winding among the Bitterroot and Clearwater mountain ranges in north central Idaho operates one of the last true logging railroads in North American.

See also: http://www.altamontpress.com/discussion/read.php?1,45472,45472#msg-45472 . . . [swg]

  • PDN.
9

Good call, Bruce. It was Locomotive-2008.

Thank you, Sir!