In 2004, Spokane County bought the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway's Geiger Spur,[1] and designated WRS to operate it, beginning in October.
[2] Following the takeover of the nearby Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad by the Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad (EWG), the Washington Department of Transportation financed a newly constructed connection to the new short line operator.
This realignment was opened on January 2, 2009, bypassing Fairchild Air Force Base, through which the spur had run.
[3] The west end of the spur is now at the Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad, near Medical Lake.
[needs update][5] Traffic carried on the Geiger Spur consists primarily of inbound steel loads.