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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] It has three transcontinental routes that provide rail connections between the western and eastern ...
A 3270 Emulator is a terminal emulator that duplicates the functions of an IBM 3270 mainframe computer terminal on a computer, usually a PC or similar microcomputer . As the original 3270 series terminals were connected to the host computer through a display controller (cluster controller) [a] using coaxial cable, emulators originally required ...
The list below is of some of the steepest gradients on adhesion railways, in order of decreasing steepness: Gradient. Line. Notes. 1 in 7.2 (13.8%) Calçada de São Francisco, Lisbon Tramways, Portugal. [1] 1 in 8.6 (11.6%) Pöstlingbergbahn, Austria.
Hercules (emulator) Hercules is a computer emulator allowing software written for IBM mainframe computers ( System/370, System/390, and zSeries/System z) and for plug compatible mainframes (such as Amdahl machines) to run on other types of computer hardware, notably on low-cost personal computers. Development started in 1999 by Roger Bowler, a ...
The Southern Transcon is a main line of 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 Northern Transcon, a route operated by the BNSF Railway, traverses the most northerly route of any railroad in the western United States. This route was originally part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway and Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway systems, merged into the ...
Release. NA: June 18, 2001 [1] EU: July 20, 2001. Genre (s) Vehicle simulation. Mode (s) Single player. Microsoft Train Simulator (informally abbreviated to MSTS) is a 2001 train simulator game developed by UK-based Kuju Entertainment and published by Microsoft Games (now known as Xbox Game Studios) for Windows. It was released on June 18, 2001.
The B.B. and B.C. was taken over by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway and renamed the Bellingham and Northern in 1912. With the beginning of WWI in 1918, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway was required to drop the unique names of their many wholly owned subsidiaries and operate them under the parent company's name.