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To clarifiy a couple things. The UP line from East Spokane/Dishman up to Mica/ Manito/Plummer is very steep, 2-3% grades and a couple horseshoes halfway up. Someone was looking at building a shuttle loader at Fairfield, but due to the nature of the line, the train would need to be brought into Spokane in cuts anyways. Even when the line was part of through routes for MILW and UP, the trains on that route were light in nature. The elevated structure in downtown Spokane was once six tracks wide, today there are only three tracks (two mainlines and the Amtrak lead). A third and even a fourth mainline would be easy to add. Follow this link to the "Bridging the Valley" project website and click on the various circles and study how the third main will be added to the exsisting BNSF mainline. Also note by clicking on the Barker Road map, you can see the east end of the new UP yard, which UP has already acquired the property for. http://www.bridgingthevalley.org/maps_2.htm It would also be wise for BNSF to add the second track back between the Scribner connection (Marshall) and west Empire, and continue both tracks through Sunset Junction to the south two mainlines of the three through downtown Spokane.
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