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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 BNSF Line is a Metra commuter rail line operated by the BNSF Railway in Chicago and its western suburbs, running from Chicago Union Station to Aurora, Illinois through the Chicago Subdivision. In 2010, the BNSF Line continued to have the highest weekday ridership (average 64,600) of the 11 Metra lines. [3]
Pages in category "BNSF Railway lines" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alameda Belt Line;
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 BNSF, which merged the AT&SF and the Burlington Northern in 1996, designates the route as their Pikes Peak Subdivision. [2] Common traffic over the line largely consists of unit coal trains originating from the Powder River Basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming , however manifest trains are very common as well, and intermodal ...
BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state, a federal judge ordered Monday after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it repeatedly ...
The line to the Canada–United States border at Noyes, Minnesota, was sold to the Canadian National Railway (CN), although the GN maintained trackage rights over it to access its tracks in Winnipeg. After the GN was merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1970, the name of the MGNR was changed to Burlington Northern Manitoba Ltd. (BNML ...
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 ...