Police halted train activity through Idaho for hours after footprints in the snow led officers to an explosive device on a train car on New Year’s Day.
The Payette Police Department said it received a report “regarding a suspicious subject” who was seen “attempting to light something on fire” near a parked railroad car in the 600 Block of North 8th Street in Payette. Officers arriving at the scene just before 6 p.m. found fresh footprints leading to a train car that had a “suspected undetonated improvised explosive device,” also known as an IED, a Payette Police Department news release said.
Payette Police Chief Gary Marshall told the media that the explosive was a “pipe bomb-style device” made out of polyvinyl chloride plastic, and it was found on a step connected to the outside of the train car.
Further footprints led to a camp trailer parked near a…
