Spokane Falls & Northern Line

The Spokane Falls & Northern Line is a 195.1 mile (55.5 miles in BC) railway line of the Washington & British Columbia Railway (W&BC) running from Troup, British Columbia on the Canadian Pacific Railway's Nelson Subdivision to Spokane, Washington, with a 3.5 mile spur, the Magnesium Spur, running from Mead, WA to the Kaiser Magnesium plant. It is the longest of all W&BC lines, and third longest of its BC lines.

From Troup, the W&BC has running rights over the CPR to Nelson, where it connects with BC Rail's Slluqan Valley Line. At Spokane, there are connections to four different railways: to the Burlington Northern & Gulf Railroad's Olympia–Duluth and Seattle–Duluth main lines; to the North Western Pacific Railroad's Kootenay & Pend Oreille and Transcontinental Lines; to the Spokane International Railroad's Spokane–Curzon mainline; and to the Union Pacific Railroad's Spokane–Moscow and Spokane–Portland lines. Additionally, the line makes a number of other connections along its route: to the NWP's Kootenay & Pend Oreille Line at Salmo, BC, to the Red Mountain Line at Red Mountain Junction, WA, and to the Washington & Great Northern Line at Kettle Falls, WA.

The Spokane Falls & Northern Line is Line 91 and the Magnesium Spur is Line 912 of the Kettle Falls Region of the W&BC.

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Freight
Three scheduled freight trains run daily on the Washington & Great Northern Line, along with a number of extras on most days.

Passenger
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