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Mike, Eric, and/or arbfbe, How much do any of you guys know about the Elk River branch in Idaho and the WI&M? One interesting relic of rail activities in the Bovill area is an old railbed running along the Potlatch River Canyon from a connection with the WI&M just south of Bovill to Little Boulder Campground, where there was a logging camp at one time. The line continued south to the Park area, and this part is now part of the main FS road to Park. Were operations on this line strictly Potlatch, or did WI&M or Milwaukee handle any switching duties on any part of this logging line? Did Milwaukee have any sights set on using this line as a jump start to an eventual line south on down to Lewiston via the Potlatch River Canyon? That would've made sense since Potlatch had (and continues to have) operations from St. Maries to Clarkia to Bovill (along the old Elk River branch of the Milwaukee) and it's main pulp and paper mill down in Lewiston, and there was and is a lot of inter-commodity haulage of logs, unfinished lumber, wood chips and hog fuel between these points. PS - I believe the line from St. Maries to Bovill continued in Milwaukee operation right up until the PCE abandonment.
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