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Ohio Match Company Railway

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271: 167: 39: 27: 234:. The Ohio Match Company served two mines, the Inland Mine (Burnt Cabin Prospect) and Commonwealth Mine, along its route. The Ohio Match Railway costed $ 1,000,000 in 1924 (Roughly $ 16,000,000 in 2022 or $ 650,000 per mile) to construct. The railway eventually extended beyond 186:’s western operation. H. A. Biggs was the engineer tasked with building the Ohio Match Railway. The Ohio Match railway was initially 25 miles (40 km) long, and stretched from the 446:"Logging Railroads of the Pacific Northwest | A very large article about the building of the Ohio Match Lumber Co logging railroad out of Garwood, ID over the Burnt Cabin Summit" 681: 235: 183: 155: 175: 598:"Logging Railroads of the Pacific Northwest | Here is an unprotected park engine that truly needs someone to show it some love" 362: 357: 219: 676: 150:
Burnt Cabin Road and then over the entirety of Burnt Cabin Road today. The Ohio Match railroad aided in harvesting
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Ohio Match Co. "Heisler" No. 4 at Northwest Railroad Museum, Snoqualmie WA at 18 Sept 2012
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covering a total of 48 miles (77 km). Two of Ohio Match Railway's locomotives, a
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over several grades to follow the Burnt Cabin Creek to the Little North Fork of the
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timber reserves that remained after the fire of 1910 to the Atlas Tie Co. in
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article on the construction of the Ohio Match Company railway. Note
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and followed the Burnt Cabin Creek to the Little North Fork of the
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locomotives are preserved, but non-operational as of 2022.
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and renumbered 92 before being donated to the city of
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Garwood, Idaho
Hayden Lake
Track gauge
standard gauge
Idaho
Garwood, Idaho
Hayden Lake
Coeur d'Alene River
Garwood, Idaho
white pine
fire of 1910
A 1924 Spokesman Review article on the construction of the Ohio Match Company railway. Note H. G. Riggs and is horse Dude.
Spokesman Review
H. A. Biggs
Ohio Match Company
Spokane International
Garwood, Idaho
Hayden Lake
Coeur d'Alene River
white pine
Hayden, Idaho
Spokane International
Garwood, Idaho
Spokane, Coeur d'Alene and Palouse
Hayden, Idaho
Lake Coeur d'Alene
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Horse Heaven

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