Clearwater County Railroad


ISO-19139 Metadata

Resource Identification Information:

Citation:
Title:  Clearwater County Railroad

Presentation format:  mapDigital

Party responsible for the resource - originator:
Individual's name: GIS Administrator
Organization's name: Clearwater County

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 208.476.8954
Fax: 208.476.8906
Address:
Delivery point: 150 Michigan Ave
City: Orofino
Administrative area: ID
Postal code: 83544
Country:  US
e-mail address:gis@clearwatercounty.org
Themes or categories of the resource:  transportation

Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:  Downloadable Data

Thesaurus name: ArcGIS Content Type
Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:  Clearwater County Idaho, BG&CM Railroad

Abstract:  The Camas Prairie Railroad was formed in 1909, and was jointly owned and operated by the former Northern Pacific Railway (later Burlington Northern Santa Fe), and the former Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company (later Union Pacific). The two railroads were competitors throughout the Pacific Northwest, battling to capture railroad traffic in timber, minerals, and agricultural products.[13] Camas Prairie Railroad was sold by co-owners UP and BNSF to North American RailNet of Bedford, Texas in April 1998 and it became Camas Prairie RailNet, Inc. After six years it was sold to Watco and became Great Northwest Railroad in March 2004. There were about 177 miles (285 km) of track in the transaction: 72 miles (116 km) from Riparia, Washington, east to Lewiston; 74 miles (119 km) from Lewiston east to Kooskia; and 31 miles (50 km) from Orofino northeast to near Jaype. The Orofino to Jaype segment was out of service.BGCM is owned by Midwest Pacific Rail Net & Logistics of Kansas City.The BG&CM (Bountiful Grain and Craig Mountain Railroad) operated a line between Spalding and Cottonwood, along the former Second Subdivision of the Camas Prairie Railroad. Spalding is located about 10 miles (16 km) east of Lewiston, which is at Idaho's western border with Washington. BGCM connects with Great Northwest Railroad at Spalding. BGCM also operates the portion of the former Camas Prairie Railroad which runs from Spalding to Orofino, then to Kooskia along the river grade of the Clearwater River.BGCM's route consists of the former Camas Prairie Railroad's Second Subdivision line, which was 66.5 miles (107 km) in length from Spalding to Grangeville.[1] As of 2005, only the 52 miles (84 km) between Spalding and Cottonwood were operated; the last 14.5 miles (23.3 km) of track between Cottonwood and Grangeville were removed in late 2002 and 2003.[2][3] When BG&CM stepped in to operate the second subdivision line in December 2002, it was originally planning to operate the 34 miles (55 km) from Spalding to Craigmont,[4] but a few weeks later decided to continue 17 miles (27 km) south, across Lawyer's Canyon to Cottonwood, stopping the salvage crews from going further north.[2][3]In 2005, Watco, owner of the BGCM's Spalding connection Great Northwest Railroad (GRNW), leased to BGCM the entire 75-mile (120 km) GRNW route east of Lewiston of mainline track, including the railroad from Orofino to Konkolville.The BGCM route had been acquired from Camas Prairie RailNet (CSPR) in December 2002, a subsidiary of North American RailNet, which had acquired the entire Camas Prairie line in April 1998 from the line's previous (and original) co-owners, Union Pacific and BNSF. CSPR received permission from the Surface Transportation Board to abandon the Grangeville Branch in September 2000 and made its last run on that line in late November.[5][6] Watco had acquired the remainder of the Camas Prairie RailNet in March 2004.[7][8]As of April, 2013, the second sub is used for storage of empty flatcars between Lapwai and Culdesac. The grade crossing of US 95 south of Craigmont has been removed and the crossings in that town are graveled over. Also, one of the wooden trestles—Bridge 21.3[9]—near Winchester was lost in a forest fire on September 7, 2011.[10] All that remains of the trestle is a single rail suspended precariously across the chasm, as well as ashes and bits of metal beneath.[11] A fire also destroyed the original elevators at Craigmont, beginning on May 12, 2013. The fire smoldered for nearly three weeks.[12]

Purpose: Clearwater County, Idaho map of the BG&CM Railroad as part of county GIS repository effort.

Dataset language:  eng
Dataset character set:  utf8

Status:  completed
Maintenance:
Update frequency:  notPlanned


Maintenance contact - pointOfContact:
Individual's name: GIS Administrator
Organization's name: Clearwater County

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 208.476.8954
Fax: 208.476.8906
Address:
Delivery point: 150 Michigan Ave
City: Orofino
Administrative area: ID
Postal code: 83544
Country:  US
e-mail address:gis@clearwatercounty.org
Spatial representation type:  vector

Processing environment: Esri ArcGIS 12.9.2.32739

Extent:
Geographic element - Bounding rectangle:
Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: -116.962976
East longitude: -115.810856
North latitude: 46.551623
South latitude: 46.366454
Credits: Metadata source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BG%26CM_Railroad

Point of contact - pointOfContact:
Individual's name: GIS Administrator
Organization's name: Clearwater County

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 208.476.8954
Fax: 208.476.8906
Address:
Delivery point: 150 Michigan Ave
City: Orofino
Administrative area: ID
Postal code: 83544
Country:  US
e-mail address:gis@clearwatercounty.org

Spatial Representation - Vector:

Level of topology for this dataset:  geometryOnly
Geometric objects:
Object type:  composite
Object count: 131

Reference System Information:

Reference system identifier:
Value: 2243
Code space: EPSG
Version: 5.3(9.0.0)

Distribution Information:

Format:
Format name: Enterprise Geodatabase Feature Class

Transfer options:

Metadata Information:

Metadata language:  eng
Metadata character set:  utf8


Last update:  2022-06-08
Maintenance:
Update frequency:  notPlanned


Other maintenance requirements: Metadata updated 20220606
Maintenance contact - pointOfContact:
Individual's name: GIS Administrator
Organization's name: Clearwater County

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 208.476.8954
Fax: 208.476.8906
Address:
Delivery point: 150 Michigan Ave
City: Orofino
Administrative area: ID
Postal code: 83544
Country:  US
e-mail address:gis@clearwatercounty.org

Metadata contact - pointOfContact:
Individual's name: GIS Administrator
Organization's name: Clearwater County

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 208.476.8954
Fax: 208.476.8906
Address:
Delivery point: 150 Michigan Ave
City: Orofino
Administrative area: ID
Postal code: 83544
Country:  US
e-mail address:gis@clearwatercounty.org
Scope of the data described by the metadata:  dataset
Scope name: dataset

Name of the metadata standard used: ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Version of the metadata standard: 2007