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A track geometry car (also known as a track recording car) is an automated track inspection vehicle on a rail transport system used to test several parameters of the track geometry without obstructing normal railroad operations. Some of the parameters generally measured include position, curvature, alignment of the track, smoothness, and the ...
View towards the southwest of the tracks of the exit group, which enclose the directional harp (48 tracks) on the west side. In 1995, the BN merged with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to form today's BNSF Railway (Burlington Northern Santa Fe), which expanded the Galesburg Yard several times due to its importance for the newly created network, while retaining the existing layout of ...
The Barstow Yard extends above the town of Barstow for almost 5 miles (8.0 km) along the Mojave River and occupies an area of about 600 acres (240 ha). Following the flow of traffic, the track systems of the flat station are divided from west to east into the following track groups: the arriving freight trains are directed into the entry group (approx. 10 tracks) in the west; the mainline ...
These systems rely on an array of video devices in various locations between the rails and either side of the track, looking for particular bogie components (such as brake beam, springs, friction wedges, etc) and this data is then put through image analysis to determine if there are maintenance issues.
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 line is part of a system of proposed commuter rail lines in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The line from Williams to Ash fork was initially laid out by the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad , though much of this section was reconstructed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (predecessor to BNSF) in 1960 to bypass several sharp curves ...
The steel bridge built in 1958 collapsed onto Interstate 25 Oct 15, when a broken rail caused 30 cars from a BNSF Railway train hauling coal to derail, the National Transportation Safety Board ...
However, the merger was not official until December 31, 1996, when a common dispatching system was established, Santa Fe's non-union dispatchers were unionized and the implementation of Santa Fe's train identification codes systemwide. [8] On January 24, 2005, the railroad shortened its name to BNSF Railway. [9]