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 this second bridge was completed on November 20, 2022. The old long bridge, built by Northern Pacific in 1904, is still being used and is almost completely hidden by the new bridge from this viewpoint. These two side by side bridges provides BNSF a double track railroad from Hauser to Sandpoint Junction, where the BNSF’s MRL Subdivision diverges eastward toward Montana.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
