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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 .
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 Hyundai Rotem cab car of Metrolink An EMD F125 locomotive of Metrolink at Los Angeles Union Station. Metrolink, the commuter rail system serving Southern California, operates a fleet of passenger train rolling stock consisting of 60 locomotives, 137 active Bombardier BiLevel Coaches (called the “Sentinel Fleet” by Metrolink), and 137 Rotem Commuter Cars (called the “Guardian Fleet”).
The railroad also operated a joint freight agency for handling smaller station shipments. [2] PE merged into SP in 1965, [3] leaving three railroads to operate the HBL. The ATSF would also be part of a merger in 1996, forming the new Burlington Northern & Santa Fe (BNSF), and the SP and UP would merge into the current Union Pacific in February ...
Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad: UP: 1916 1987 Union Pacific Railroad: Los Angeles and San Diego Railroad: SP: 1876 1888 Southern Pacific Railroad: Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad: ATSF: 1883 1887 California Central Railway: Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad: SP: 1868 1874 Southern Pacific Railroad: Los Angeles and Santa Monica ...
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.
Much of the line south to Bakersfield was constructed in the 1890s as part of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad. Passenger service between Richmond and Oakland began in June 1904. [3] Passenger service on that segment ended in the 1950s. [4] The Valley Division and Los Angeles Division were merged into the "California Division ...
In 1908, current on the third rail system was raised from 550 volts to 1,200 volts. [7] The extension to Sacramento began service on September 1, 1910. [1] In 1928, the railroad was sold by the original owners and was then jointly purchased by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Western Pacific ...