Golden Rays On The Lake | Crossing Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint, ID, a train of empty grain hoppers heads east under the morning sun of Thursday, October 23, 2025.

Daybreak On The Lake | As the sky begins to lighten on the cool early morning of Wednesday, October 22, 2025, an eastbound train of empty grain hoppers crosses the causeway over Lake Pend O... (more)

A westbound BNSF oil train from the Dakotas crosses scenic Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint, ID and enters the "Funnel" to Spokane.

CP 8018 leads a northbound Potash empty at Sandpoint as it heads for Eastport, ID.

A westbound BNSF manifest freight makes its way across the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille linking Sandpoint with Algoma, Idaho, on a perfect October 6, 2018. More recently, the new bridge has ... (more)

CP 7056 on the H-PASGFD4-15A at Sandpoint,Id

The last bit of sunlight on February 13, 2024, illuminates an eastbound BNSF grain train crossing the new bridge spanning Lake Pend Oreille between Algoma and Sandpoint, Idaho. Construction of thi... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train crosses the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint, Idaho, in the falling snow on January 28, 2020. During this time, BNSF was busy working on the approaches o... (more)

Sort of a typical view of an early post mega-merger power lineup and scene of the railroad crossing immense Lake Pend Oreille. A fairly new Heritage 1 Dash9 leads predecessor roads' power as well ... (more)

BNSF’s Sandpoint local hurries through Algoma on its way to Sandpoint, Idaho, on February 2, 2023. The train is powered by a pair of EMD GP50s, Nos. 3126 and 3121, spliced by EMD GP40M No. 3011.

Normally arriving at Sandpoint, Idaho, at 2:20 a.m., Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder scurries through Algoma approaching Sandpoint a bit off the advertised at 10:10 a.m. on February 2, 2023. A... (more)

A westbound BNSF manifest freight makes its way across the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille linking Sandpoint with Algoma, Idaho, on a perfect October 6, 2018. More recently, the new bridge in f... (more)

A westbound BNSF vehicle train crosses the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille as it departs Sandpoint, Idaho, on the afternoon of October 6, 2018.

Three BNSF C44-9Ws bring a BNSF grain empty over the long bridge spanning an arm of Lake Pend Oreille between Algoma and Sandpoint, Idaho, on February 3, 2022. BNSF’s is constructing another new... (more)

Pend Oreille Valley’s Sandpoint turn has just finished interchanging cars with the BNSF at Sandpoint, and is now departing westbound with empties for rail-served customers on the way back to New... (more)