The Idaho Northern Railroad built a

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of the

Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N) was a railroad that operated a rail network of running east from Portland, Oregon, United States, to northeastern Oregon, northeastern Washington, and northern Idaho. It operated from 1896 as a ...

(OR&N) in northern

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, U.S., connecting the main line at Enaville (Now considered a populated place in the unincorporated community of

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) with

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(Formerly located on the

side of the

Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...

state line between

Murray, Idaho Murray is an unincorporated community in Shoshone County, Idaho, United States. It is twenty miles from Wallace along Dobson Pass Road. Prichard Creek flows through the community, forming a thin and deep valley in the surrounding Coeur d'Alene M ...

, and

Thompson Falls, Montana Thompson Falls is a city in and the county seat of Sanders County, Montana. The population was 1,336 at the time of the 2020 census. History Thompson Falls was named after British explorer, geographer and fur trader David Thompson, who founde ...

), a distance of . The company was incorporated on January 10, 1906, and opened on August 1, 1909 as an

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of the

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...

(UP), owner of the OR&N. On December 23, 1910, the property of the OR&N and Idaho Northern Railroad were conveyed to new UP subsidiary

Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N) was a railroad that operated a rail network of running east from Portland, Oregon, United States, to northeastern Oregon, northeastern Washington, and northern Idaho. It operated from 1896 as a ...

. The line was cut back from Paragon to Prichard after a December 1917 washout. A flood in December 1933 severely damaged the remainder of the line, and the

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authorized its abandonment in 1935.John V. Wood, Railroads through the Coeur d'Alenes,

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, 1983, p. 99

, Finance Docket No. 10508, March 8, 1835 Abandonment allowed for the widening and construction of present day Coeur d’Alene River Road.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Idaho Northern Railroad Defunct Idaho railroads Predecessors of the Union Pacific Railroad Railway companies established in 1906 Railway companies disestablished in 1910 American companies established in 1906

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