The Potlatch particle board plant appears to be in decent shape, usually shipping out two or more loaded boxcars a day. Idaho Veneer, on the other hand, has been through serious ups and downs in recent years. They can go for days or weeks on end with barely a single centerbeam or flexibeam being spotted for loading. Don't know how much they're shipping out by truck. Another piece of history that's probably going to die along with the DeArmond mill and the branch line into CdA is the practice of hauling logs out the St. Joe River and up Lake Coeur d'Alene, which amazingly was still being done with little fanfare. Interesting to note that right down to the final days of railroading into CdA, there are still segments of all four predecessor branches in service: NP from Hauser Jct. to Post Falls; GN from Post Falls to just west of Huetter; MILW from just west of Huetter to the Atlas/Gibbs area; GN from there on into CdA; and approximately one mile of the UP (SI) from Gibbs down through the "tunnel" under the GN into CdA. Of course, there were predecessors to those companies which I could mention (like the SIE, SC&P, etc. for the GN), and the merging of portions of the MILW and GN branches half a century ago, but that's where it gets really complicated.