Camas Prairie Railroad Time Tables
Time Table Documents from the Camas Prairie Railroad, operated by Northern Pacific Railway
Contents: About the Collection | Tech
About the Collection
Owned and operated by Northern Pacific Railway and Union Pacific, the Camas Prairie Railroad ran through northern Idaho from roughly 1909 to the late 1990s.
This digital collection consists of 137 Camas Prairie Railroad time table documents ranging in date from 1909 to 1997, and including time tables intended for employee use as well as special notices. Each time table includes the train schedule, as well as general and special instructions.
The Camas Prairie Railroad’s main subdivision routes were:
- Lewiston, ID to Riparia, WA
- Lewiston, ID to Stites, ID
- Spalding, ID to Grangeville, ID
- Orofino, ID to Headquarters, ID
The documents in this collection were donated to the University of Idaho Special Collections and Archives by the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association.
![Color-coded Line Map Camas Prairie Railroad [1] from University of Idaho Hal Riegger Papers Collection](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/riegger/riegger393.jpg "click to see item")
For more information on the Camas Prairie Railroad, see the Hal Riegger Papers, 1981-1986 collection, where the above images are from.
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
Using the CollectionBuilder-CSV template and the static website generator Jekyll, this project creates an engaging interface to explore driven by metadata.