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A BNSF freight train passes Corcoran station on the Bakersfield Subdivision, 2010 The Bakersfield Subdivision is a railway line in California owned and operated by the BNSF Railway . It runs from Fresno in the north where it connects to the Stockton Subdivision and Bakersfield in the south where it continues as the Mojave Subdivision .
This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
California Zephyr: 15,588 Town of Truckee/ Union Pacific Railroad: Amtrak Thruway: 20A Former Southern Pacific station Turlock–Denair: Denair: TRK San Joaquin: 26,347 BNSF Railway: Open shelters. Located in Denair, but also serves Turlock. Van Nuys^† Van Nuys (Los Angeles) VNC Coast Starlight Pacific Surfliner: 63,035 State of California
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]
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.
The Los Angeles Junction Railway (reporting mark LAJ) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the BNSF Railway and provides rail switching service on 64 miles of track in Los Angeles County, California. Its tracks are in the small industrial city of Vernon and adjacent industrial areas, southeast of Downtown Los Angeles .
The Stockton Subdivision is a railroad line in the U.S. state of California owned by the BNSF Railway. [2] It runs from the Port of Richmond, where trains interchange with the Richmond Pacific Railroad, to Fresno where the railway continues south as the Bakersfield Subdivision or the Union Pacific Fresno Subdivision.
The Harbor Subdivision is a single-track main line of the BNSF Railway which stretches 53 miles (85 km) between rail yards near downtown Los Angeles and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach across southwestern Los Angeles County. It was the primary link between two of the world's busiest harbors and the national rail network.