At 08:36 PM 3/14/02 -0800, Shirley Johnson wrote: >Hi Beth and others, > >The train came to this little - 1500 population - town of Pomeroy, in >southeastern Washington in 1886. I know that for sure because the line was >taken out in 1986, exactly 100 years after the beginning. This line came out >of Walla Walla but there was also a line that ran up the Snake River to >Lewiston, ID and I don't know what year that one was built. At one time >there was a plan to run the Pomeroy line across the Alpowaii summit to >connect with the Lewiston line but it never happened. That is fascinating to know. Somewhere I've seen a map that as I remember had small little "fingers" of railroads going into several areas of eastern Washington but don't remember that they were dated. What is the county for Pomeroy? Beth [remainder of message snipped]