The Lake Creek and Coeur d'Alene Railroad built a

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between Manito, Washington and Amwaco, Idaho. It was incorporated on July 26, 1906, in

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, and completed the line on June 12, 1910. From opening, the company's line, and a steamboat it had acquired, were leased to the

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(OR&N). The OR&N was already operating a line through Manito to

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(built by the Washington and Idaho Railroad), and at Amwaco it used the steamboat to cross

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, which was located on another ex-Washington and Idaho Railroad line to

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. The combined railroad and steamboat line thus formed a shorter route between Spokane and Wallace than the all-rail route via Tekoa, and helped the OR&N successfully compete with the electric interurban Coeur d'Alene and Spokane Railway and its steamboat connection. The properties of the OR&N and Lake Creek and Coeur d'Alene Railroad were conveyed to new

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(UP) subsidiary

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on December 23, 1910. The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized abandonment of the entire line in 1932. Interstate Commerce Commission, Finance Docket No. 9489, October 21, 1932 Later, in 1955, the UP would acquire

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over the

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's line between Manito and Plummer, again creating a shortcut between Spokane and Wallace, and abandon its ex-Washington and Idaho Railroad line between Tekoa and Plummer.John V. Wood, Railroads through the Coeur d'Alenes, Caxton Printers, 1983, pp. 101, 104, 185

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