Highline Grain terminal sprouts

The sleepy community of Four Lakes will have an added bustle to it soon with the completion of the Highline Grain terminal and accompanying track upgrades allowing Burlington Northern Santa Fe unit trains to efficiently ship Northwest crops to markets worldwide.

Despite a return to a more traditional winter, the various elements of the project were on track to begin operation early in 2016.

That's the word from Keith Bailey, general manager and CEO of Ag Ventures and the operations officer for Highline Grain.

"It's going well, the construction is on target really," Bailey said. "We're slightly...