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(Photo courtesy RICH LITTLE)A BNSF train derailed Wednesday night due to a rockslide, knocking six cars including the engines off the track and sending one of the locomotive engines into the Kootenai River.

(Photo courtesy RICH LITTLE)A BNSF train derailed Wednesday night due to a rockslide, knocking six cars including the engines off the track and sending one of the locomotive engines into the Kootenai River.

January 2, 2020

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Train derails into the Kootenai River
January 2, 2020 6:58 p.m.

Train derails into the Kootenai River

BONNERS FERRY — A rockslide likely caused the derailment of a mile-long BNSF Railway train Wednesday night, sending an engine with its two-person crew plunging into the Kootenai River.