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BC Rail. BC Rail ( reporting mark BCOL, BCIT) is a railway in the Canadian province of British Columbia . Chartered as a private company in 1912 as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway ( PGE ), it was acquired by the provincial government in 1918. In 1972 it was renamed to the British Columbia Railway, and in 1984 it took on its present name of BC ...
In 1928, all that remained of Tunnel City was a station house labeled Martin and a few employee cottages. In 1947, Martin was station No. 7023 at milepost 82.5 on the Tacoma Main Line. In February 1949, Martin saw 3 ft (0.91 m) of snow fall the night of February 15. The snow depth increased from 13 ft (4.0 m) to 16 ft (4.9 m) overnight.
Today's Utah Railway operates over 423 miles (681 km) of track between Grand Junction, Colorado, and Provo, Utah, of which 45 miles (72 km) are owned, and the remainder operated under agreements with BNSF Railway and Union Pacific. As of January, 2017, the company no longer hauls coal. The Utah Railway also owns a subsidiary railroad, the Salt ...
The Norfolk Southern Railway ( reporting mark NS) is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company was formed in 1982 with the merger of the Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. [4] The company operates 19,420 route miles (31,250 km) in 22 eastern states, the District of ...
1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The West Isle Line ( reporting mark WFS) is a private railroad and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nutrien (formerly Western Farm Service). The line is operated by a contractor and the line does not have any employees. The line began service on January 7, 1998, after having been acquired from the Burlington ...
The Kaw River Railroad ( reporting mark KAW) is a Kansas City, Missouri railroad, established in June 2004. Twelve miles of original track served the Kansas City Southern Railroad customers in Kansas City and Union Station. The original KAW was a Kansas City Southern Railway Company property and was the first shortline Watco began operating for ...
Point Defiance Bypass. The Point Defiance Bypass (officially the Lakeview Subdivision) is a 14.5-mile-long (23.3 km) rail line between the cities of DuPont and Tacoma in Pierce County, Washington. It was originally built by the Northern Pacific Railway – the Tacoma– Lakewood segment in 1874 as part of the Prairie Line, and the Lakewood ...
Great Northern Tunnel. / 47.604; -122.333. The Great Northern Tunnel is a 1-mile (1.6 km) double-tracked railway tunnel under downtown Seattle, Washington, completed by the Great Northern Railway in 1905, and now owned by the BNSF Railway, on its Scenic Subdivision. At the time it was built, it was the tallest and widest tunnel in the United ...