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Posted by J Campbell on Friday, February 18, 2011 9:58 PM

Good call, Bruce.  It was Locomotive-2008.

Thank you, Sir!

~ Jason

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Friday, February 18, 2011 11:58 AM

"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 Loggersby 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  . . . Smile, Wink & Grin

- PDN. 

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Posted by J Campbell on Friday, February 18, 2011 9:36 AM

Bruce Kelly

To the best of my knowledge, Trains has never done a feature story on STMA...

...Kalmbach's Locomotive magazine did something on it I believe in 2009...

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

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Posted by Bruce Kelly on Friday, February 18, 2011 8:50 AM

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.

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Friday, February 18, 2011 8:41 AM

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 !  Smile, Wink & Grin  Maybe it was in part of another article - or maybe an article about a similar operation out that way . . . ?

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Posted by Bruce Kelly on Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:37 PM

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.

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Posted by J Campbell on Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:42 AM

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. Laugh

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:11 AM

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

signals along MRL's former Northern Pacific route along the Clark Fork River
from Trains March 2000  p. 58

 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 out of suggestions.

You might also be interested in these - the 1st 2 can also likely still be obtained from Kalmbach:

 
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St. Maries River Railroad
Posted by J Campbell on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:47 PM

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.

~ Jason

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