By George Chambers

My wife Sally and I were on a trip a couple of weeks ago in northern Idaho. A few miles west of Bonners Ferry while driving through some farm country I spotted a use for an old grain hopper car. A Union Pacific hopper car was mounted up on some cement concrete pillars for cattle feed storage. Those modeling today’s railroads could use one on a farm scene.

The next photo was from near where we were staying in Hope, Idaho. The BNSF track was near by, so I caught the rear end of a coal train heading westbound on the former Northern Pacific Railway track. This is a few miles east of Sandpoint. Lots of freight trains going though this area.

George