Re: Spokane Valley
Author: Matt Farnsworth
Date: 10-23-2010 - 07:58
Did I read that correctly? TRIPLE track to Athol!? I know the line is buisy, but it's not that buisy. And if that is in fact true, why stop the triple track at Athol? There isn't another line that joins up until Sandpoint, so that seems a rather arbitrary spot to end triple track.
Matt
Moscow ID
PNWRailfan Wrote:
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> Now BNSF is waiting on government
> money from the "Bridging the Valley" project to
> pay for the upgrades between Spokane and Athol.
> The "Bridging the Valley" project was to have
> included a new double track span across the
> Spokane River and triple tracking the Funnel from
> Sunset Jct to Athol. It'll probably be a long time
> in coming for the BTV project to be completed
> (also involves removing the UP line through Post
> Falls)