Idaho & Washington Northern
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- Jan 2, 1908Frozen Ground Crushes a Railroad WorkerA steam-shovel man on the Idaho & Washington Northern is struck by a collapsing bank of frozen gravel and brought to Newport with a broken nose and severe bruises.Newport, WA
- Jan 9, 1908Newport Builds Its Way to the Water — One Petition at a TimeRail engineers run spur lines to the Pend d'Oreille River Navigation Co. docks while the Commercial Club passes the hat for lumber to extend a sidewalk down Pine Street to the Idaho line.Newport, WA
- Apr 23, 1908A Railroad Survey Promises to Wake the Pend Oreille ValleyEngineers began staking a route down the Pend Oreille River, with Newport yards and valley development hanging on the survey.Dalkena, WA
- Nov 5, 1908The Hook Slipped: A Scaler Killed Two Miles From NewportJames Wall, 50, was loading logs for the Panhandle Lumber Co. when a heavy log fell and fractured his skull. He lived only five minutes.Newport, WA
- Dec 17, 1908The Boom That Wasn't: 350 Workers Stranded in NewportAs the Idaho & Washington Northern extension stalled, contractors shipped in men before camps were ready; saloons fed and sheltered the stranded workforce.Newport, WA
- Dec 24, 19081,500 Men and a Steam Shovel: Newport Builds the Metaline LineThe Idaho & Washington Northern extension turns Newport into a construction boomtown, with subcontractor camps, mule trains, dynamite barges and a temporary hospital.Newport, WA
- Feb 4, 1909When the Ice Broke: Newport's Steamboats Reconnect the Pend OreilleWith the river finally open to Box Canyon, two navigation companies coordinated schedules at Newport, linking trains, mail and lumber camps to the upper Pend Oreille.Newport, WA
- Feb 18, 1909Cement Plant Rumors Swirl as the Metaline Rail Extension StallsCompany officials deny reports of an eight-mile I.W.N. extension to Metaline and a $125,000 water-rights deal, even as a cement plant remains likely.Metaline, WA
- Apr 15, 1909A Tree, a Right of Way, and a Man From OntarioA hired hand clearing the Idaho & Washington Northern grade is crushed by a falling tree; his body comes home to Newport for burial before the long ride back to Walkerton.Newport, WA
- Apr 15, 1909One Thousand Men on the Grade, and Another Thousand ComingItalian crews step off the train at Newport while the Idaho & Washington Northern pushes its extension south past Usk — the town's biggest payroll is a railroad that is still being built.Newport, WA
- Jul 15, 1909Steel on the Grade: The I.W.N. Pushes North From UskTwelve carloads of steel arrived in Newport this week as the Idaho & Washington Northern extension resumed tracklaying, with a new station open at Usk and a tunnel still to finish at Blueslide.Usk, WA
- Mar 24, 1910A Powder Keg Turns a Dynamite Blast Into a Burn WardAt the Idaho & Washington Northern's Box Canyon camp, a blast ignited a keg of powder and left worker Paul Fracovich with severe burns to his face, hands and stomach.Ione, WA