Derailment clean up continues on Kootenai River
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Efforts to clean up the Kootenai River are ongoing after three locomotive engines and six rail cars jumped the track Jan. 1, with crews focused …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Efforts to clean up the Kootenai River are ongoing after three locomotive engines and six rail cars jumped the track Jan. 1, with crews focused …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Railroad and environmental officials are working to contain a fuel spill in the Kootenai River after a train derailed into the waterway Jan. 1.
Burlington …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Fresh off renewed concerns about water quality after a recent coal train derailment, Idaho Conservation League is taking a deep dive into the question of …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
An unknown amount of coal spilled into the Clark Fork River due to the derailment of a Montana Rail Link train Sunday.
At about 11 …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
*UPDATED*
A train derailed Monday morning south of Cocolalla Lake, directly in front of Valley Vista ranch adjacent to Highway 95. The crash was reported …
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