BNSF’s Sandpoint local follows the shoreline of Lake Pend Oreille as it approaches the long bridge over the lake between Algoma and Sandpoint, Idaho, on September 30, 2021. Powered by BNSF EMD S... (more)

BNSF’s Sandpoint local, led by EMD SD60M No. 1411, is passed by the DPUs of a westbound BNSF unit oil train at East Algoma, Idaho, on February 4, 2021. After also meeting a westbound grain train... (more)

BNSF’s Sandpoint local is passed by the DPUs of a westbound BNSF grain train at East Algoma, Idaho, on February 4, 2021. After meeting two westbound trains, the local will depart and cross the l... (more)

Led By EMD SD60M No. 1412, BNSF’s Sandpoint local rolls eastward toward the E. Dufort Road grade crossing at Algoma, Idaho, on January 28, 2020.

Nearly a half a century after the demise of the Great Northern Railway, GN 50-foot boxcar No. 319499 sits at the former GN yard in Sandpoint, Idaho, on October 12, 2017. Even though it is rusty an... (more)

Right behind the caboose of a Milwaukee Road westbound arriving at Avery comes a railroad speeder. The railroad had speeders follow its freights as a way to put out fires started by sparks from th... (more)

At dusk, electrics E75 and E29 wait silently for tonight's assignment: to haul a heavy eastbound freight over St. Paul Pass, with E75 as lead unit, and E29 cut into the train as helper.

An F3 and a GP7 pull a shot train through Donnelly, Idaho. Photo taken by Jack Pfeifer.

Milwaukee’s local was passing M.P. 48 near Purdue, Idaho on the 72-mile Bovill branch, returning back to the mainline at St. Maries with a load of logs and lumber on Aug. 16, 1977. Many of the... (more)

At Plummer junction, the hot eastbound is seen passing another eastbound waiting at the junction

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Boeing special is at Algoma, just across Lake Pend Oreille from Sandpoint, Idaho, on June 3, 2002. SD60M No. 9205 hustles the a lone Boeing parts car, along with wit... (more)

A pair of both SD60M's and SD40-2's head Westbound on a loaded coal train across the busy "funnel" line between Sandpoint and Spokane.

Union Pacific 4-12-2 9514, Class UP-5, was built by ALCO in 1930, one of eighty-eight locomotives. As built, she was numbered 9077, later re-numbered to 9514. These three-cylinder locomotives had... (more)

Great Northern had a well maintained depot at Sandpoint, Idaho in the summer of 1968 as shown in this night view. Rex Cauble, the operator, has the order board clear for westbound trains.

GN westbound freight with F7s 454D, 462C and 462D cross a bridge near Newport, Idaho on their way to Hillyard in Spokane.