By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff After more than a decade of planning and construction since 2019, BNSF Railway announced Aug. 7 that it had officially opened two-way traffic on the new and refurbished train...
By Reader Staff BNSF announced that contractors have installed the final deck girder segment on the second rail bridge over Lake Pend Oreille during the first week of August, bringing the project into the...
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Since Burlington Northern-Santa Fe announced plans in the spring of 2017 to begin pursuing permits for building a second rail bridge to span Sand Creek and Lake...
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor “Benching,” according to one Urban Dictionary definition, is “the time spent photographing or watching graffiti on trains.” “Wild Style” is often the type of art on trains, and one...
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 around 6 a.m. and...
By Susan Drumheller Reader Contributor One of the biggest concessions made in passing the recent the national omnibus budget bill was an agreement to lift an export ban on domestically produced crude oil. That...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Even the fierce free-marketeer Margaret Thatcher hesitated to do it. As international rail expert Brendan Martin described it: “She starved British Rail investment, but she refused to privatize it.” ...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The national economy might run on oil, but for Sandpoint, the energy source could also be its undoing. About 75 regional residents turned out Wednesday evening to hear the...
