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Lonnie King's Trip Reports

June 2007

July 2007 -- Part One

July 2007 -- Part Two

Melstone, MT

 
In Melstone we had difficulty identifying much of anything. The old Wilson Hotel is evidently gone as is the old rooming house (or we simply could not recognize them as such!). We eventually did find the old Sumatra depot building.
And if you use a magnifying glass you may be able to make out the Roscoe Steel & Culvert Company sign above the white door immediately to the right of the light post (NOT the garage door). We also found the Melstone train order board.
The Handel Elevators described by McCarter
A plate girder bridge....
and an old grain elevator.
Steve McCarter describes a pair of bridges 9.75 miles west of the Handel elevator. We found these bridges: