The Bidye Traction

The Bidye Traction Railroad is a short line electric traction railroad serving several inter-dependent industries. It is the last remnants of a once far more extensive traction system.

The industries served by the railroad include a lumber mill, a furniture factory, a grain mill, a commercial bakery, a paint and solvent factory, a metal can and container factory, and a coal fired electricity plant.

The lumber mill, as an example, produces timber for the furniture works, and crates and pallets for the bakery, the metal can factory and the paint factory. Some of the metal cans are used by the paint factory. Milled grains are used by the bakery.

Box cars, gondolas, hoppers, flat cars, tank cars and other rolling stock arrive by a ferry barge.

A Class 1 railroad also has running rights over the main track.

The railroad is one of the few surviving reminders of the grim, grimy, decaying smoke stack USA.