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    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...
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    The Southern Transcon is a main line of the BNSF Railway comprising 11 subdivisions between Southern California and Chicago, Illinois. Completed in its...
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    Facility The Northern Transcon runs between Seattle and Chicago. The route is a combination of parts of the old Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, and...
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  • It serves as a portion of the BNSF Railway Northern Transcon. Originally the mainline of the Great Northern Railway, the Hi-Line name has its origins in...
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    old Great Northern's Northern Transcon north of St. Paul. The GN had commuter service in the Minneapolis area running between Great Northern Depot and...
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    Empire Builder (category Passenger trains of the Great Northern Railway (U.S.))
    Fargo, North Dakota; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It uses BNSF Railway's Northern Transcon from Seattle to Minneapolis, Minnesota Commercial Railway from Minneapolis...
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  • name of a subdivision of the Northern Transcon railway, often applied to the entire line Hi-Line (Montana), an area of northern Montana named for the railway...
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    operated by BNSF Railway as the easternmost part of the railroad's Northern Transcon to Seattle, Washington. This line is colloquially known as The Racetrack...
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    age 18 and 7.8% of those age 65 or over. Havre is located on the Northern Transcon of the BNSF Railway; Amtrak's Empire Builder stops at Havre station...
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    offered Amtrak the right to instead operate the Empire Builder over the Northern Transcon route, to which freight traffic had been shifted. To compensate for...
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    Recreation Area (part) Ramsey County is a major freight hub along BNSF's Northern Transcon route and is also served by Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific. Amtrak...
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  • Railway as part of their Northern Transcon. The original line (built in 1893) was built as part of James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway transcontinental...
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  • Stampede Pass (category Northern Pacific Railway)
    as one of two direct Northern Transcon main lines through the Cascades, between Spokane and the Seattle metropolitan area. Northern Pacific Railroad had...
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    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...
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    ex-Northern Pacific main line. The ex-Great Northern and ex-Northern Pacific lines are merged into BNSF and this is now the BNSF Northern Transcon (transcontinental)...
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  • considered part of the Northern Transcon. BNSF Northwest Division Timetables No.3, p. 69-71, 26 April 2006 Map of BNSF Northern Division BNSF Subdivisions...
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  • BNSF's Northern Transcon between Snowden and Bainville. The northern segment, from Bainville to Scobey, was constructed by the Great Northern Railway...
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    Marias Pass (category Great Northern Railway (U.S.))
    Great Northern Railway. The railway line, which sees freight traffic, as well as Amtrak's Empire Builder, is part of BNSF's Northern Transcon line linking...
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    two-lane road continues southeast along the Scenic Subdivision of the Northern Transcon, a BNSF rail line, into Monroe. The highway travels past the Evergreen...
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  • OR. It is operated by BNSF Railway and is considered part of the Northern Transcon. The Portland section of Amtrak's Empire Builder, Trains 27 and 28...
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    preparation for their GED exams." Libby is located on the BNSF Railway's Northern Transcon. Amtrak serves Libby through a local station. U.S. Route 2 and Highway...
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  • Pasco. It is operated by BNSF Railway and is considered part of the Northern Transcon. The line is used by the Portland section of Amtrak's Empire Builder...
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    running east from the city. Frazee is on the Northern Pacific Railway's former main line, now the Northern Transcon of the BNSF. In 2015, this line carried...
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  • Wenatchee, Washington. It is operated by BNSF Railway as part of their Northern Transcon. This route includes the Cascade Tunnel, as well as the 1893 site...
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    Line (South Bend–St. Clair Tunnel–London), NS Chicago Line and BNSF Northern Transcon.[citation needed] National Register of Historic Places portal Trains...
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    The derailment occurred on the Hi-Line, a portion of the BNSF's Northern Transcon. BNSF conducted its most recent inspection of the section through...
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  • BNSF Railway's Northern Transcon which runs from Chicago, Illinois to Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. This is former Great Northern Railway trackage...
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    Most of the Montana segment of US 2 runs alongside BNSF Railway's Northern Transcon route. US 2 passes into Montana 10 miles (16 km) from Troy, a small...
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    "24") runs northwest from where Highway 24 crosses the BNSF Railway's Northern Transcon, staying parallel to the tracks until it turns right in Glasgow's...
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    Flathead Tunnel (category Great Northern Railway (U.S.) tunnels)
    also known as the Flathead. The tunnel was constructed for the Great Northern Railway by the Walsh Construction Company and S.J. Groves and Sons (collectively...
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