Unfortunately, during this visit the famous "Potlatch Plow" was hidden from view.
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Fall colors have as yet to start showing, back in 2018. Motive power
sits quietly outside their engine house in St. Maries, Idaho. GP9's 103 and 101,
plus SW1200 501, are ready for their next assignments. (All are ex-Milwaukee Road.)
SW1200 # 501 idles, ready to start the days work:
Caboose #997:
Wreck derrick MILW X-12:
It's now almost 2020 and the St. Maries depot is still in fair shape:
The mid-1980's and the St. Maries depot sports a really nice sign:
Mid-1980's finds STMA #5005, a Thrall Door Potlatch box car waiting
along with a companion. This was the BNRR yard at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho:
Back in the mid-1980's, a view of the engine house with all three GP9's and both SW1200 units:
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