Camas Prairie Railroad

Infobox SG rail
railroad_name=Camas Prairie Railroad Company
system_

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map_size=300px
marks=CSP
locale=Lewiston, Idaho to Ayer JCT(Riparia), Washington
Lewiston, Idaho to Stites, Idaho
Spaulding, Idaho to Grangville, Idaho
Orofino, Idaho to Headquarters, Idaho
start_year=1889
end_year=1998
hq_city=Lewiston, Idaho

Camas Prairie Railroad Company Reporting mark|CSP was a short line railroad in northern Idaho jointly owned and operated by Northern Pacific Railway and Union Pacific Railroad. The Camas Prairie Railroad was known as the “railroad on stilts” due to the many trestles. In one five mile stretch, there were more than a dozen trestles. The CSP was a remnant of the great railroad wars in the 19th and 20th century, when the Edward H. Harriman and the James J. Hill were fighting over this whole inland area to see who could get the most rails into the Pacific Northwest. They called it “the war” and the Camas Prairie Railroad was the result of that war and in many ways the end of the war. In the end, the railroads co-operated to build the Camas Prairie Railroad. The CSP was built to tap the rolling, fertile hills of the Palouse prairie, as well as the more southerly Camas Prairie and the forested hills and canyonlands of the area's rivers.

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External links

* [http://www.camasprairierails.com/ pics and files]
* [http://www.wwvrailway.com/camas.htm/ lots of pics]
* [http://community.webshots.com/album/167204953IWxGHN/ lots of pics]
* [http://community.webshots.com/album/43459329zKSusM/ lots of pics]
* [http://community.webshots.com/album/84157804mXkJCN/ lots of pics]
* [http://community.webshots.com/album/53242011XaPhqe/ lots of pics]
* [http://www.btinternet.com/~usrailfans/Railroads/Camas_Prairie/camas_prairie.html/ lots of pics]
* [http://www.depotnews.com/KRUG/040217KRUGa.htm/ info]
* [http://www.watcocompanies.com/Railroads/gnr/grnw.htm/ info]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/wa/lctrainclub/news/Camas.html]
* [http://users.lewiston.com/ejorgens/office/miscellaneous/railroad.htm]
* [http://www.railvids.com/Rick/Camas/Camas.htm]
* [http://www.daylightimages.com/trackside/csp1.html/ pics]