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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.

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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.