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     The town of Marshall isn't very big, but it is the location where BNSF interchanges with the Palouse River Coulee City Railroad.   There is a small yard located on the low side with a few tracks to hold cars for the interchange.  The PCC normally comes to interchange about 3 times a week.  At Marshall there is a connecting track between the high side and the low side.  This track is normally used by northbound UP trains.  This is because they enter BNSF tracks at UP Jct. which is located just after Lakeside Jct. where the low side and high side split.  The connecting track starts on the low side at Marshall and ends in the high side at Scribner.  At Scribner take a left onto S Scribner Rd.  This road will cross both tracks and offers good possibilities for both westbounds on the high side and eastbounds on the low side.  Also at Scribner there is a short siding which is used to store hopper cars from the PCC railroad if there are too many cars to fit in the small yard.  From the surrounding hills you can get some great shots of eastbounds in the morning.  Also as the road starts to head up and leave the railroad, you can look back on Scribner siding and get a spectacular westbound curve photo. 

     The road stays above the tracks from here to past Lakeside Jct., and there are a couple ways to get to Lakeside Jct.  The easiest is to pull off Cheney-Spokane Rd and hike down the hill to the tracks.  The other option is to continue west on Cheney-Spokane until you see a sign for Fish Lake.  Turn left and drive up to the parking lot.  From there it is about a mile walk east down the old railroad grade.  There were not any "No Trespassing" signs when I was there last, but that has been several years now. At Lakeside Jct. there are multiple hills that afford some good angles of trains.  There is also a lake for reflection shots and to add more color to your photo.  The old UP line still runs between the tracks and is a good place to walk.  At UP Jct. (which is only about 100 yards east of Lakeside Jct.) all UP trains split off the BNSF and hit their home rails.  Lakeside Jct. is where the low side and high side come back together, and the tracks continue as one main all the way to Cheney.  The dispatcher doesn't usually like to hold westbound trains at Lakeside Jct. because they will be blocking UP Jct.  Also when they start moving again, they are starting on an uphill grade.  It is also at Lakeside Jct. that the dispatcher territories end.  East of the Jct. is the Boyer West Dispatcher, but west towards Cheney is the Pasco East Dispatcher.