Last Tracks Removed from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Author: Bruce Kelly
Date: 11-02-2011 - 10:51
The city that was once served by four separate branch lines is at this very moment seeing the last strips of unused track ripped up. We're talking roughly three miles of BNSF's Coeur d'Alene Sub being removed from the former site of the BN freight office in CdA westward to Huetter. This is mostly former GN and MILW trackage. BNSF will continue to serve customers in Post Falls, and use the short passes at Huetter for run-around moves. But plans are in the works to build a new run-around just east of the particleboard mill in Post Falls, which would allow BNSF to shorten the branch even more.