WI&M Depot – Potlatch, Idaho
Our mission is to preserve the Washington, Idaho & Montana Railway, gather its history, and share this industrial heritage for the inspiration and benefit of our communities.
All Aboard!
Climb aboard for a visual tour beginning in 1905, when the Potlatch Lumber Company (PLCo) built a sawmill, company town, and the WI&M Railway to log its 100,000 acres of Idaho white pine, the largest remaining stand of virgin white pine timber in the world.
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- Lumber for stacking trails a Jeffries electric yard goat used to move lumber from the Potlatch saw mill around the yard.
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- Lumber loading platform at the Potlatch sawmil.
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- Logs from the White Pine King felled December 1911.
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- World’s longest log train enroute to Potlatch.
You Can Help!
Do your part to preserve the memory of a truly memorable railroad:
The WI&M!
