Vignette Vol. 2 No.9
Resource: BEHIND THESE MOUNTAINS
Excerpt - Noxon 1922. Northern Pacific Railroad depots were a mixed affair, many of them closing within few years after the railroad was completed. The men and women who manned the outposts, originally established ten miles apart, were a mixed lot. Most were diligent and honest. A few were not, and were replaced as soon as word reached the main offices in Minneapolis.
Lyle, Art Yonker, and Minnie Yonker play with Janet
Newton and an unidentified lad on the snow pile beside
the Northern Pacific Railroad depot at Noxon, one of the
remaining twenty-three depot buildings east of the Idaho border in the 1920s.The ghost town of Smeads had only
a Boxcar depot, and many other smaller stops were flag
stops with no shelter for waiting passengers. The Clark's
Fork River and Noxon ferry crossing are beyond the
cottonwood trees on the north side of the depot.
Courtesy George Jamison collection.
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