Bruce Kelly, courtesy photo

POST FALLS - As Bruce Kelly has watched railroad trends for more than 30 years, reliance on such transportation mode in Post Falls and Coeur d'Alene has dwindled.

That makes the Post Falls man and contributing editor of Railway Age magazine cringe.

"It's not so much a case of the rail industry needing to salvage economic conditions," Kelly said. "Railroads are already handling record-setting business for those companies, industries and communities that know how to salvage their own economies, and how to generate new business that takes advantage of the energy-efficient transportation which only rail can provide.

"BNSF would love to keep what's left of its Coeur d'Alene branch intact if there was more emphasis on the part of our local leaders to attract light industry and shipping to that track in and around Post Falls," Kelly said. Brian Walker, CdA Press

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