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The Southern Transcon is a main line of the BNSF Railway comprising 11 subdivisions between Southern California and Chicago, Illinois.Completed in its current alignment in 1908 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, when it opened the Belen Cutoff in New Mexico (going through eastern New Mexico, northwestern Texas, briefly part of western Oklahoma and to Kansas) and bypassed the steep ...
The Northern Transcon, a route operated by the BNSF Railway, traverses the most northerly route of any railroad in the western United States. This route was originally part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad , Northern Pacific Railway , Great Northern Railway and Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway systems, merged into the ...
The Phoenix Subdivision is a railroad line in the U.S. state of Arizona owned by the BNSF Railway.It runs from Phoenix in the south to Williams Junction in the north where it connects to the Seligman Subdivision and Southern Transcon. [1]
This is a map of the BNSF Railway as of 2009, with trackage rights in purple (haulage rights are lighter). Email me if you would like a copy of the GIS data I created (modified from Bureau of Transportation Statistics North American Transportation Atlas Data) or if you see any errors.
BNSF Railway (reporting mark BNSF) is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads , BNSF has 36,000 employees, [ 1 ] 33,400 miles (53,800 km) of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. [ 2 ]
It is operated by BNSF Railway [2] as part of their Southern Transcon route from Chicago to Los Angeles. The Chillicothe Subdivision is a high volume route connecting three principal yards in Chicago (Corwith, Willow Springs, [3] and Logistics Park Chicago) in the east and the Marceline Subdivision in the west which continues to Kansas City.
It is operated by BNSF Railway as part of their Northern Transcon and contains the busiest segment of mainline track in the state, the segment between Coon Rapids and Fridley. As of 2015, most of the route hosted an average of 60 trains per day, and there were 80 trains per day near Fridley. [1]
It is operated by BNSF Railway as part of their Northern Transcon. This route includes the Cascade Tunnel, as well as the 1893 site of the "last spike" near Scenic, Washington, which marked the completion for the Great Northern Railway transcontinental railway line built by James J. Hill. [6]