Jason Cunningham, P.E., S.E., a structural engineer at Hanson’s office in Peoria, Illinois, talked about BNSF Railway Co.’s Sandpoint Junction Connector project during the Illinois Structural Engineering Conference.
The April 6 event was held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and was hosted by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The Sandpoint project will provide additional bridges to relieve rail traffic congestion in Sandpoint, Idaho, and includes a 4,800-foot-plus bridge over Lake Pend Oreille.