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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 ]
The Phoenix Subdivision is a railroad line in the U.S. state of Arizona owned by the BNSF Railway.It runs from Phoenix in the south to Williams Junction in the north where it connects to the Seligman Subdivision and Southern Transcon. [1]
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]
We were nothing,” says Chris Bond, a rail engineer for BNSF. Then we weren’t heroes no more. Freight rail unions stand firm on demands as strike looms at BNSF, other carriers
About 700 railroads operate common carrier freight service in the United States. There are about 160,141 mi (257,722 km) of railroad track in the United States, nearly all standard gauge. Reporting marks are listed in parentheses. [1] A&R Terminal Railroad (ART) Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad (AR)
The Wichita Terminal Association (reporting mark WTA) is a switching and terminal railroad in northern Wichita, Kansas, jointly owned by the BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad. It handles mainly grain and some scrap steel , serving customers at the former Wichita Union Stock Yards.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. is an American transportation and logistics company based in Lowell, Arkansas. It was founded by Johnnie Bryan Hunt and Johnelle Hunt in Arkansas on August 10, 1961. By 1983, J.B. Hunt had grown into the 80th largest trucking firm in the US, with $623.47 million in revenue.