Lone BNSF GE ES44C4 No. 6844 leads a westbound BNSF unit oil train through the curves at Hope, Idaho, on February 13, 2024. The cantilever searchlight signals at both ends of the siding here are c... (more)

On February 13, 2024, an eastbound BNSF coal empty curves along the shoreline of scenic Lake Pend Oreille as it approaches Hope, Idaho. The train recently passed through Sandpoint and is now runni... (more)

Passing milepost 10 on the Pend Oreille Subdivision at Algoma, Idaho, is an eastbound BNSF coal train off the Montana Rail Link on September 26, 2021.

An eastbound mixed freight has just come off the MRL at Sandpoint, ID. The head end has nearly crossed the entire 4800' length of the original span and the continued progress is visible on the sec... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train off the Montana Rail Link at Sandpoint Junction, Idaho, passes the depot at Sandpoint on the afternoon of September 30, 2021. BNSF is double-tracking the line through h... (more)

BNSF’s Sandpoint local, led by EMD SD60M No. 1411, is passed by the DPUs of a westbound BNSF unit oil train at East Algoma, Idaho, on February 4, 2021. After also meeting a westbound grain train... (more)

BNSF 8026 and 3874 take advantage of the double track on the "Funnel" allowing 3874's grain train to overtake 8026's. Grain train activity appeared to be quite heavy in the Pacific North... (more)

A westbound loaded Grainer rounds out of the Kootenai River Gorge through Katka, Idaho making it's way to the West Coast on the Kootenai River Subdivision.

A trio of GEs haul grain loads off the Hi-Line across the 4,769 ft trestle over the pristine waters of Lake Pend Oreille. This train is hot on the heels of a Z-train while two eastbounds are waiti... (more)

Light snow dusts the scene as a westbound BNSF freight enters double track at East Algoma after crossing the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille across from Sandpoint, Idaho, on January 28, 2020.

BNSF 6039 leads an eastbound empty coal train along Denton Slough, part of Lake Pend Oreille on Montana Rail Link near Denton, east of Hope. The train is headed for Missoula for its next crew chan... (more)

BNSF 3734 on a westbound stack train waits for a new crew while BNSF 4396 and two CSX units hustle a westbound vehicle train past. Shortly after this shot, the new crew showed up and got the stack... (more)

A beautiful fall day finds the Funnel full of trains, some of which are parked. BNSF 3993 is on the point of a loaded oil train sitting idle after just re-crewing with a relief crew to get it to H... (more)

While the majority of railfans in the Northwest were busy flocking toward the Columbia Gorge for 4449's excursion to Bend, OR, my father and I headed east to the Kootenai River Gorge with a specta... (more)

Gliding along the banks of the beautiful Kootenay River, engineer J.S. Pinkston has his 115-car Beltrami, MN to Kalama, WA grain train easily under control.