Colleagues,One of our astute & patient colleagues has discovered (and I think I have fixed) a couple of additional problems on the RMD-2. I have sent Phil, and also Dick Carlson a set of fixed corrupted snow textures and when I get word back, probably tomorrow night, I will upload another fixes file to the library. This will include some of the earlier texture fixes as well, so as to be a complete (to now anyways) set.Attached is an image of DD-250, Big Dick Creek, near Kyle, ID on the RMD-4. This is the next to last trestle seen by a westbound train before Avery. About that name. Nearby, flowing through a water tunnel under a fill (which I intend to include, but probably faked) is Long Liz Creek. Since this is a PG rated group (I guess), we shall stay away from the more direct descriptions of how these names came about. Legend has it that Long Liz was the proprietor of a recreation facility in Taft, MT, later Wallace, ID, while Big Dick was an early settler, said to be a business partner of Long Liz. However, the US Forest Service, in setting up signs on the "Trail of the Hiawatha" (biking & hiking trail on the roadbed between E.Portal and Pearson) says that Long Liz was a Mule used in the early construction of the railroad, and Big Dick was just an oversized gang foreman - I rather think the first version is more likely. Nearby, also going through a water tunnel is "Motor" Creek. It's name is cast in stone. Around 1919, a westbound set of boxcabs hit a slide near this creek, and at least part of the set tumbled down the fill into the N. Fork of the St.Joe, which by the way is the larger stream on the far side of the trestle in this view. Hence the crews referred to the spot (practically over the creek) as "Motor Creek".J. H. Sullivan
Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
