Art Young has been preserving the region’s rich history by rebuilding it to scale in a series of meticulously detailed models that relive the glory days of the Spokane International Railroad. He now plans to put about a thousand hours into a scaled-down replica of the Cabinet Gorge Dam. (Photo by DAVID GUNTER)
March 20, 2011
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March 20, 2011 7 a.m.
Young keeps track of railroad history
S-I crossings find new life in miniature
COCOLALLA — A steam locomotive noses slowly out onto the partially built trestle, chugging forward a foot or so at a time. The incomplete steel structure juts out over a narrow mountain canyon, pointing directly at the tunnel opening being blasted out of the rock on the other side.