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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 Valley Division of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ran from San Francisco to Barstow in California. It is currently in operation as the BNSF Railway's Stockton Subdivision and Bakersfield Subdivision. [1] [2] Much of the line south to Bakersfield, was constructed in the 1890s as part of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley ...
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 ]
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Southern Railway: SOU SOU 1894 1990 Norfolk Southern Railway: Southern Railway in Kentucky: SOU: 1894 1944? Southern Railway: Southern Division of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad: L&N: 1878 1903 Louisville and Nashville Railroad: Southwestern Railroad: SOU: 1876 1889 Louisville Southern Railroad: Tennessee Central Railroad: IC: 1902 1922 ...
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway: MP: 1886 1917 Missouri Pacific Railroad: St. Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad: SLSF: 1895 1899 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad: St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway: SLSF: 1895 1901 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad: St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: SLSF SLSF 1916 1980 Burlington ...
Class 1 railroads with intermodal terminals and maritime RoRo ports. In the United States, railroads are designated as Class I, Class II, or Class III, according to size criteria first established by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1911, and now governed by the Surface Transportation Board (STB).
The Chillicothe Subdivision or "Chillicothe Sub" (slang "Chilli Sub") is a railway line [1] running about 229 miles (369 km) from Chicago, Illinois to Fort Madison, Iowa in the United States of America. It is operated by BNSF Railway [2] as part of their Southern Transcon route from Chicago to Los Angeles.