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The BG&CM Railroad or Bountiful Grain and Craig Mountain Railroad is a Class III shortline railroad located in north central Idaho. ==Summary== The BG&CM operated a line between Spalding and Cottonwood, along the former Second Subdivision of the Camas Prairie Railroad. Spalding is located about 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 in length from Spalding to Grangeville. As of 2005, only the between Spalding and Cottonwood were operated; the last of track between Cottonwood and Grangeville were removed in late 2002 and 2003. When BG&CM stepped in to operate the second subdivision line in December 2002, it was originally planning to operate the from Spalding to Craigmont, but a few weeks later decided to continue south, across Lawyer's Canyon to Cottonwood, stopping the salvage crews from going further north.〔〔 In 2005, Watco Companies, owner of the BGCM's Spalding connection Great Northwest Railroad (GRNW), leased to BGCM the entire 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 Railroad and Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway. 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. Watco had acquired the remainder of the Camas Prairie RailNet in March 2004. 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〔http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/hhh.id0437.photos.224536p/〕—near Winchester was lost in a forest fire on September 7, 2011.〔http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/129416403.html〕 All that remains of the trestle is a single rail suspended precariously across the chasm, as well as ashes and bits of metal beneath.〔https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151609980454055&l=8b6d283b66〕 A fire also destroyed the original elevators at Craigmont, beginning on May 12, 2013. The fire smoldered for nearly three weeks.〔http://lmtribune.com/northwest/article_bbd1e439-691f-5025-a74b-8e12d834a362.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BG&CM Railroad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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