SeELEY LAKE

 Seeley Lake serves as the eastern terminus of the Clearwater Terminal and is the town furthest geographically north. The rails and area the present-day Clearwater Terminal occupy started life as a logging company landing and shops in the mid 1920's. Today the area has grown thanks to steady timber industry,  agricultural and service community that occupies the area today. CSLP maintains a yard office and a dedicated switcher locomotive. The locomotive is leased to the Seeley Lake Transfer Railroad LLC, a group of Seeley Lake stakeholders.

Industries in Seeley Lake

Kootenai Fuels: In the late 1970's a proposal was introduced for a pipeline to Seeley Lake up the Blackfoot from Clearwater Junction. The line was never completed and instead rail transport was pushed as the primary means of getting petroleum products of all kinds up to Seeley Lake. Kootenai Fuels acts as the end of that cycle and deals in heating oil, diesel fuel, gasoline and petroleum products. In 2023 the opened Kootenai Solid Fuels next door to bring in Big Bull Mountain coal for a combined fuel boiler operation further up the valley.

Clearwater Valley Logistics: Early on in the operation of the modern Clearwater Terminal it was realized that transload operations, moving goods and commodities between rail and road, was needed in the north of the Clearwater Valley. A location was selected and an asphalt pad and office was erected. The Seeley Lake Terminal can serve boxcars, covered hoppers, flat cars and box cars with whatever the customers or the railroad needs to be moved. The busiest time is during the grain rush in the fall when two augers can be kept busy loading covered hoppers from various farms up and down the valley. 

Front Range Quality Foods LLC: Known regionally for its Award-Winning Front Range Chili Con Carne, FRQ is a major employer in Seeley Lake. They take in bulk shipments for food production either at their own rail dock or at the transload facility and ship canned food products to distributors throughout the northwest.