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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUOY_signs-wires-whistles_Syria-ID.html
Grief could come to a big, fast train suddenly. Railroaders needed to see and hear warnings and orders clearly and quickly. The engineer and crew watched for standard signals over each section of track and kept their eyes and ears open for sign…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUOX_mountains-of-copper_Syria-ID.html
Depending on who you talk to, the hills around you contain either rich copper deposits or a lot of hot air.... Between 1889 and 1922, miners explored a number of promising mining properties near Adair. They encountered ore containing copper, sp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUOV_this-place-had-a-name_Syria-ID.html
During the 1910 fires, fire fighters hopping off a train here at two in the morning wondered, "why anyone bothered to give this spot a name." In fact, Adair started out several years earlier as a boisterous railroad construction tent camp housi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUOT_the-traveler_Syria-ID.html
An astonishing contraption called "The Traveler", a giant rolling crane, erected Kelly and Clear Creek Trestles in record time. The Milwaukee decided to build Kelly and Clear Creek Trestles out of steel right From the beginning. Horse and mu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUOS_the-big-blowup_Syria-ID.html
The forest fires of August, 1910, burned millions of acres in Idaho, Montana and Washington. On the night of August 20, engineer Johnnie Mackedon, returning from a trip to St. Paul Pass, found the Falcon siding on fire. Over one hundred terrified …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUOQ_the-1910-fires_Syria-ID.html
One of the largest forest fires in the history of the United States ...swept over Idaho and Montana on August 20 and 21, 1910, including the area where you now stand. The fire burned three million acres, destroyed eight billion board feet of ti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUOP_bridging-the-gaps_Syria-ID.html
Wood to Steel The Milwaukee Road built temporary wood trestles at all but Kelly Creek and Clear Creek. Fire danger prompted the railroad to immediately begin replacing the wooden structures with earth-filled embankments or building steel bridge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUOO_no-ones-fault_Syria-ID.html
It's nature's "fault" this tunnel is closed? Several major geologic fault lines run under these mountains. The mountainside here is slowly shifting along a fault line into the right side of this tunnel, collapsing it. The tunnel runs through…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUOL_section-gangs_Cottonwood-Falls-ID.html
Patrolling for problems on the track was the job of the section foreman and his "section gang" of 2 to 7 hardy laborers. In the early 1900s the Milwaukee Road's mainline was divided into 5.5 to 9.5 mile-long sections. A "gang" was assigned to e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUOJ_tunneling-toward-tacoma_Broadalbin-ID.html
Snaking its railroad down the western side of the Bitterroot Mountains, the Milwaukee Road burrowed 16 tunnels to maintain a uniform grade down to Avery. These tunnels were dug largely by hand using sledgehammers and hand drills. In some cases …
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