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Midwest flooding map BNSF Railway OMAHA, Neb. — Plagued with weather-caused outages since mid-March, BNSF Railway reports all service is restored. Operations were slated to resume over the July 20 to 21 weekend on the 80-mile Napier Subdivision, along the Missouri River from near Omaha to near St. Joseph, Mo. It was BNSF’s hardest hit […]
The worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX fleet in the wake of two fatal crashes has not stopped rail shipments of new fuselages from Kansas to Washington State via BNSF Railway and regional Montana Rail Link. Boeing has curtailed production of the 737 MAX for the duration of the grounding, which is related to […]
FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway opened its new intermodal terminal in Barstow, Calif., this week for premium container service between Southern California and Chicago. The $27 million terminal includes two production tracks totaling 6,600 feet, two lifts, and 640 paved parking spaces, BNSF spokeswoman Lena Kent says. Service is provided five days a week. […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Following the recent bankruptcy filing of coal producer Cambrian Holdings, another Appalachian coal company has filed for bankruptcy protection. According to court documents, Revelation Energy LLC and its Blackjewel LLC parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the Southern District of West Virginia. According to the filing, made under the […]
GLEN HAVEN, Wis. — The main BNSF Railway route between Chicago and Minneapolis/St. Paul will remain closed through at least Tuesday after a mudslide caused a derailment Monday morning, sending at least one car into the Mississippi River. About 15 cars of the southbound intermodal train were reported to be derailed, the Wisconsin State Journal […]
Oklahoma Gas & Electric empties approach the four loading silos as the Belle Ayr Mine, then owned by Amax, on Dec. 21, 1976. Hol Wagner GILLETTE, Wyo. – Wyoming’s pioneering Belle Ayr mine southeast of Gillette has closed abruptly this week, following the bankruptcy filing of parent Blackjewel LLC in West Virginia. The company has […]
This CSX Transportation crude-by-rail map shows the route the unit oil trains took from Chicago via Buffalo and Selkirk, N.Y., to reach the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in Philadelphia. CSX Transportation PHILADELPHIA — The pending closure of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery will put a dent in crude oil traffic on BNSF Railway and CSX […]
CHICAGO — Two unrelated incidents made for a bumpy evening commute Thursday for riders on Metra’s BNSF line. First, trains were stopped briefly after a truck struck a bridge near Western Avenue about 3:30 p.m. Trains were moving again by 4 p.m. with residual delays of 20 to 25 minute, WMAQ-TV reported. Later, a locomotive […]
FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway has placed in service another section of quadruple main line on its Southern Transcon route, this time on the Seligman Subdivision near the California-Arizona border. The four-mile section of fourth main line through Needles, Calif., went into service recently, BNSF said in a June 7 customer advisory. The Needles […]
BURLINGTON, Iowa — BNSF Railway’s Ottumwa Subdvision has felt the wrath of the Mississippi River, as its waters have covered tracks in downtown Burlington, Iowa. Trains have continued to operate, although at a greatly reduced speed. The river crested at 24.45 feet on Saturday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. That same day, a […]
BNSF Railway flooding map BNSF Railway Union Pacific flooding map as of May 31 Union Pacific LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas River flooding has closed portions of the Union Pacific in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and elsewhere in the Midwest, while BNSF Railway has restored Midwestern service and remedied a brief Friday shutdown in Missouri of its […]
CHICAGO — BNSF Railway and CREATE have announced the completion of a CREATE project on the Western Avenue Corridor, the fourth of eight projects completed on that section of the project to improve Chicago rail traffic flow. Overall, 30 projects are now complete of the 70 that make up the entire program. The newest project, […]
