Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 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.
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 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,
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 .
Most of the line was purchased by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) in 1992, and freight rights are retained by BNSF. [1]Heavy construction began in June 2014 to convert a portion of the Harbor Subdivision to light rail use as a segment of the K Line, part of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. [2]
This page was last edited on 29 December 2013, at 02:44 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Note: Per consensus and convention, most route-map templates are used in a single article in order to separate their complex and fragile syntax from normal article wikitext. See these discussions , for more information. This is a route-map template for the Lafayette Subdivision, a BNSF railway line in the United States.