Sorry for the long delay, I've been busy with finishing up this school year; should be done by the end of the week though. I did make an accidental discovery through the related video feature of youtube though, which has me on my current model railroading thought process.
Watching a video of the Union Pacific's Plummer, Id, branch line, I found a railroad at the end of the branch called the Saint Maries River Railroad (STMA). Doing some more youtube digging on the STMA, I unearthed a shortline with 4 axle chopnose GP9's, and a pair of SW1200's. The line to Plummer from St Maries, where the yard and shops are, is very picturesque, with several causeways and bridges. What's more, this is ex-MILW trackage, and I've been interested in the MILW's Lines West since I read the article on it in The Railroad Press.
I then used Google Maps to explore a bit, looked up pics of the mainline with rrpicturearchvies.net, and found the STMA's website. As luck would have it, they operated, until a couple of years ago, a branch line that was used to haul logs to a sawmill in St Maries. There's also a second sawmill in St Maries, providing for a decent bit of realistic switching. And in the spring and summer, tank cars of road binder to keep dust down are also hauled to St Maries. I've seen several different methods of interchange in Plummer, and, in a model railroader's world, the UP branch would provide a bit more switching, albeit with UP power.
So this line has met most of what I'd want. Expanding on my passing siding to passing siding idea, this is a yard to interchange mainline, with an optional branch to be built later on. And if the branch is built later, there's no real back-dating needed, since the gap is only a few years.
I'll be writing updates as I take an in-depth look at the STMA's mainline.
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