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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, Id. – The Idaho Department of Lands approved Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s request to build a second rail bridge over Lake Pend Oreille in Sandpoint. The second rail bridge will run ...

BNSF Railway has offered to build a second bridge over Lake Pend Oreille, right next to the current bridge over the lake. The project will also introduce new bridges over Sand Creek and Bridge Street ...

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 ...