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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 ...
This is a route-map template for the Cajon Subdivision, a BNSF railway line in California.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The connector has resulted in a direct connection between the BNSF rail yard in Galesburg to the Southern Transcon. The line has also had a significant impact for Amtrak. Prior to the building of the connector, the Southwest Chief operated on the Chillicothe Subdivision to Galesburg, via Joliet, Streator and Chillicothe.
This is a route-map template for the San Bernardino Subdivision, a BNSF railway line in California.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
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.
The Valley Division and Los Angeles Division were merged into the "California Division" in 1988. [5] However by 1996, BNSF had divided the line into four subdivisions: [6] Bakersfield (Bakersfield to Calwa); Stockton (Calwa to Richmond); Riverbank (Riverbank to Oakdale); Sunset Railway (Gosford to Taft); and most of a fifth,
Its construction prompted a frog war at the Colton Crossing, where it intersects the Southern Transcon, then owned by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and now by BNSF Railway. The first trains departed for through service between Los Angeles, California and New Orleans on February 5, 1883.
A map of Barstow Yard. Barstow Yard is a classification yard operated by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) in Barstow, California.With 48 directional tracks and a total area of approximately 600 acres (240 ha), it is the second largest classification yard west of the Rocky Mountains after the J.R. Davis Yard.