On September 5, 2003, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest crosses the bridge over Lake Pend Oreille between Sandpoint and Algoma, Idaho. Leading the train is former Santa Fe GE B40-8... (more)

BNSF 7451 leads a fleet of westbounds off the Hi-Line onto the Funnel on a beautiful summer morning. Sandpoint is currently a major bottleneck for BNSF with the MRL junction and the single track o... (more)

Smoky August days. We did what we could with the horrible skies on our August trip. Here 6630 brings up the rear of a grain train, a closer look reveals a group of kids who have been playing in t... (more)

On a gloomy March day a BNSF train gildes west across the famous bridge over Lake Pend Oreille with two Boeing 737 fuselages in tow.

A late summer trip sort of limited our success on our list trip to the Pacific NW. But did create great sunrise and sunsets. Here a Westbound train crosses the famous bridge over Lake Pend Oreil... (more)

Smoky skies create beautiful sunrise light as a eastbound train crosses the single track bridge across Lake Pend Oreille near Sandpoint, ID.

An eastbound BNSF Z train crosses the long single-track bridge over Lake Pend Oreille between Algoma and Sandpoint, Idaho, on the sunny afternoon of October 6, 2018. After a couple of false starts... (more)

For years I have always wanted to visit the famous, well documented bridge over Lake Pend Oreille in Sandpoint Idaho. In 2018 we made two trips. In August fires from the smoke created some fantas... (more)

An evening eastbound stack rolls across Lake Pend Oreille into Sandpoint. Smoke from the many Northwest wildfires hangs over Idaho.

A morning westbound Stack Rolls off the Lake Pend Oreille Bridge into Algoma Idaho.

Smoke from the many wildfires in the Northwest hangs over Sandpoint Idaho, as an early morning westbound manifest crosses Lake Pend Oreille

On a remarkably clear late-spring day in 2018, an eastbound intermodal crosses the soon-to-be-doubletracked bridge across Lake Pend Oreille into Sandpoint, Idaho with 3 GEs, each displaying one of... (more)

On a crisp, early autumn day, a trio of Montana Rail Link SD45s power a BNSF freight westbound into Algoma, Idaho, only moments after crossing the bridge over Lake Pend Oreille from Sandpoint, on ... (more)

The sun has set in a smoky sky over lake Pend Oreille and on cue, a westbound BNSF manifest crosses the bridge and into my frame. Soon this scene will look rather different, as BNSF is in the pla... (more)

The sun has set in a smoky sky over lake Pend Oreille and on cue, a westbound BNSF manifest crosses the bridge and into my frame. Soon this scene will look rather different, as BNSF is in the pla... (more)