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1. Sandpoint ID - BNSF, UP (with a lot of CP overhead traffic), and MRL, all within a stones throw of each other, and very little dead time between trains. Plus, Sandpoint is one of the world's most beautiful locales, with or without the rail action. <br /> <br />2. Lyon's Ferry/Palouse Falls WA - UP and Great Northwestern Railroad (the former Camas Prairie RR). A lot less action, but some great visual dynamics. UP's Joso bridge is rather imposing from below. The UP line through the Palouse River canyon is rife with cuts and tunnels for some great overhead shots. The area around Palouse Falls is very stark, sometimes the quiet can unnerve you while you wait for some rail action. Fighter pilots often train overhead, and sometimes will dip into the canyon at Mach (they come upon you very quickly, once scared the living daylights out of me while hiking up the trail parallel to the UP line). You also get some barge and the occassional riverboat action, and it's always fun watching a semi cross the old and narrow cantilever bridge, taking up both lanes, not a place for a camper to be coming the opposite direction (The bridge was the old U.S. 10 bridge at Vantage WA). <br /> <br />3. Bonner's Ferry ID - Almost a carbon copy of Sandpoint, sans MRL and the lake. The south part of town sits on a bluff overlooking the valley where the BNSF tracks are immediately below and the UP tracks about a mile off in the valley. Other great oversights lie east of town. <br /> <br />4. Cheney WA - BNSF, UP, and PCC. Plenty of great public access sites and trails toward the west of town to Marshall Canyon.
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