Contractors working for BNSF Railway installed the final deck girder segment on the nearly one-mile-long bridge across Lake Pend Oreille near Sandpoint, Idaho, during the first half of August. Under ...

Fifty years after Burlington Northern consolidated the traffic of two predecessor routes onto a single line featuring a nearly mile-long bridge near Sandpoint, Idaho, successor BNSF has opened its ...

After what BNSF describes as preparations of more than a decade, BNSF’s Sandpoint Junction connector bridge in Idaho is finally open and running, enabling two-way traffic across Lake Pend Oreille and ...

BNSF Railway Co. said it is moving ahead with a second railroad bridge across Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint, while the city’s mayor voiced opposition. BNSF said it had been considering building the ...

Seattle city emergency planners say more must be done to lower the risk of an oil train accident and improve the city’s ability to respond. A train glides across the water at Sandpoint about every ...

Idaho officials have approved BNSF Railway's application for a permit to build a second railroad bridge in northern Idaho across Lake Pend Oreille and Sand Creek in Sandpoint. The Idaho Department of ...

BOISE, Idaho — BNSF Railway’s plan to build two bridges as part of a second railroad line in northern Idaho to accommodate increased train traffic and future growth meets environmental requirements, ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho — BNSF Railway wants to build a second bridge in northern Idaho to handle an expected increase in traffic that includes coal and oil trains. The one bridge now at Sandpoint handles ...

BNSF is a major transportation player in the Tri-Cities. Pasco is home to BNSF’s largest humpyard in the Northwest, and the company employs more than 500 people in the area. Matthew Brown AP BNSF ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) — An environmental group is appealing an Idaho Department of Lands encroachment permit granted for a second BNSF Railway Co. bridge. Court records show Wild Idaho Rising Tide ...

According to the backers of the new bridge for BNSF, I quote, “What is good for Washington is good for the entire Northwest.” Huh. Really? Does the bridge proposal include the two other bridges needed ...

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