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Been perusing through the latest (Summer 2005) issue of the "Historic Rail" mail order catalog. On page 6 there's an ad for the book "The Log Trains of Southern Idaho" by an auther with the last name of Witherell. Part of the abstract reads "....through the dense forests of southern Idaho." Since I am from this part of the country, I have some doubts about this ad, either it being a typo (perhaps supposed to refer the log trains of northern Idaho or southern Oregon), or if there was indeed logging train operations albeit in limited applications in southern Idaho, which by the way is totally devoid of any "dense" forests, those forests being comprised mostly of sparse ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, aspen, and juniper. Other doubts are raised by the reference to Weyerhaeuser, which had (and still has) major operations in Washington, Oregon, and northern Idaho, but not in southern Idaho. I also have quite a few geographic atlases and contour maps of southern Idaho, and none of these show any old railroad grades through any of the forest lands. Does anyone out there have this book? If so, is it indeed about logging train operations in southern Idaho, or am I correct in suspecting a catalog misprint/typo/error of some type, ect.?
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