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27,000 miles (43,000 km) The Burlington Northern Railroad (reporting mark BN) was a United States-based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads. Burlington Northern operated between 1970 and 1995. Its historical lineage begins in the earliest days of railroading with the chartering in 1848 of the Chicago and Aurora ...
Website. bnsf.com. 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 has three transcontinental routes that provide rail connections between the ...
88003024 [1][2] Added to NRHP. January 3, 1989. The Northern Pacific Railroad Shops Historic District, located in Brainerd, in the U.S. state of Minnesota is a set of buildings built by the Northern Pacific Railroad and later listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1882 using stone, brick, slate, concrete, and ...
Burlington Northern (Oregon–Washington), Inc. Oregon Trunk Line, Inc. GN/ NP: 1906 1909 Oregon Trunk Railway: Oregon and Washington Railroad: UP: 1906 1910 Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company: Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company: UP: 1910 1987 Union Pacific Railroad: Oregon and Washington Territory Railroad: NP ...
Otter Tail Valley Railroad. The Otter Tail Valley Railroad (reporting mark OTVR) is a Class III railroad operating 81 miles (130 km) [1] of track between Moorhead, Minnesota, and Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and short branch lines from Fergus Falls to French and from Fergus Falls to Hoot Lake.
The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest. It was approved by Congress in 1864 and given nearly 40 million acres (62,000 sq mi; 160,000 km 2) of land grants, which it used to raise money in Europe ...
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway (BCR&N) was a railroad that operated in the United States from 1876 to 1903. It was formed to take over the operations of the bankrupt Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railway, which was, in turn, the result of merging several predecessor lines, the construction of which began in 1869.
The BNSF Railway Bridge 5.1, [2][4] also known as the St. Johns Railroad Bridge[2][4][5] or the Willamette River Railroad Bridge, [6] is a through truss railway bridge with a vertical lift that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States. Built by the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway (SP&S) and completed in 1908, it was ...