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BNSF wraps up

connection work with Palouse River tracks

Burlington Northern Santa Fe crews have wrapped up a key element of the track work being done to upgrade the Palouse River Coulee City rail line from Cheney through Four Lakes to the Geiger Spur.

Last week, BNSF crews finished a two-and-half-month long project upgrading one mile of track and a “Y” connection in Cheney it shares with the PRCC. Railway spokesman Gus Melonas said $2 million worth of work was performed that included new rails, ties and seven new switches.

Melonas said the rail pulled up was date stamped 1892, weighed 85 pound...

 

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