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Don: Yes, and that man is one I admire a great deal. Some have questioned if her really discovered Marias, (namely some of his underlings-) but even so, he still deserves the lion's share of the credit for that. BTW he also ran the Rock for a while, and was the President of my own favorite RR, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle. It is one of the finest engineered parts of the BNSF system and is his brainchild, largely. Yes, that man is John Frank Stevens. The story of his secret mission up the Deschuttes canyon before WWI is an amazingly entertaining one as well. Just shows you how serious competition was then! Corporate Espionage, Edwardian style. BTW if you know of any good books on him i'd love it if you post them. No suitable bio has ever been written about this man. And you might also want to check out his companion, Ralph Budd, who had worked with him in Panama, and who later saved the passenger train from an early death. Some of his ideas, too, would be highly applicable to today's passenger rail scene. Alexander
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