With falling snow frosting the wintery scene, a westbound BNSF coal train enters double track at East Algoma after crossing the bridge over Lake Pend Oreille from Sandpoint, Idaho, on February 27,... (more)

BNSF is experiencing a “grain rush” at the end of winter 2017. Closely following a BNSF grain train that passed only a few minutes before, another loaded grain train crosses the long bridge ov... (more)

BNSF is experiencing a “grain rush” at the end of winter 2017. Here, a westbound grain train with lone DPU No. 4753 on the rear, has just cleared the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille at Sand... (more)

A tranquil scene at the blue hour is disrupted by a grain train swimming upstream and into another typical Hauser meltdown. I'd photograph this train at 16:46 and when I went to bed the next morni... (more)

An eastbound BNSF stack train begins its trek across the bridge over Lake Pend Oreille on the approach to Sandpoint, Idaho, on January 23, 2013.

Morning fog finally begins to burn off at Sandpoint, Idaho, as a burst of sunshine illuminates a westbound BNSF grain train making its way across the bridge over Lake Pend Oreille on September 27,... (more)

On February 4, 2016, a westbound BNSF intermodal train crosses Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint, Idaho, and heads onto double track toward Spokane.

Though Summer is in full swing in the small town of Sandpoint, boats still sit in the local marina, awaiting a call out to sea, er, Lake Pend Oreille. An empty portable pipeline crosses over Sand ... (more)

An intermodal passes over a small bridge in the town of Sandpoint, Idaho. Though out of scene, two couples are observing the passing train from their boats.

As a thick morning fog begins to finally lift off of Sandpoint, Idaho, a westbound BNSF grain train makes the long trek across the bridge over Lake Pend Oreille on September 27, 2008.

A westbound BNSF intermodal train treks across the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille leaving Sandpoint, Idaho, on BNSF’s “funnel” to Spokane on February 4, 2016.

Heading onto double track at East Algoma, a westbound BNSF grain train crosses Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint, Idaho, on February 4, 2016.

A westbound BNSF Z train crosses the bridge over Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint, Idaho, on June 29, 2006.

A westbound BNSF freight passes over an inlet on Lake Pend Oreille at the marina in Sandpoint, Idaho, on July 22, 2013.

Assisted by a BNSF unit, a very late-running eastbound Empire Builder crosses Lake Pend Oreille approaching its station stop in Sandpoint, Idaho on a crystal clear winter day.