The Funnel BNSF Railway's Spokane Subdivision

This 70 mile long corridor between Spokane and Sandpoint sees some of the heaviest rail traffic in the Northwest and is known as The Funnel. The tracks travel in a northeasterly direction into the Idaho panhandle before crossing the 5,000 foot Lake Pend Oreille Bridge and arriving at Sandpoint junction. Unit grain trains, coal, intermodal, vehicle, manifest and the new Bakken oil trains all use this impotant route. With over 50 trains a day on a line with several sections of single track.