BNSF North Dakota Funnel

The twenty five miles of track between Moorhead Junction, Minnesota, just across the Red River from Fargo, North Dakota, and KO Junction Switch, west of Casselton, where the former Great Northern and Northern Pacific lines split, is as busy as any section of track on BNSFs main line between the Twin Cities and the Pacific Northwest. All trains on BNSFs main line from Chicago to Portland and Seattle and all trains on the former NP main to Montana traverse this strategic section of track. At KO Junction Switch, the transcontinental main line, often referred to as the Hi Line because much of it is close to the Canadian border, heads northwest towards Minot and the West Coast on former Great Northern track, while the former Northern Pacific main, now part of BNSFs northern coal corridor, heads straight west towards Jamestown and Bismarck. This funnel also sees a lot of grain headed to ports in the Pacific Northwest. A manned tower that was taken down shortly after the Burlington Northern merger, used to control the grade crossing of the two main lines at Casselton. Today, all of this track including the junction is controlled by BNSFs network operations center in Fort Worth. This program shows all of the trains for 24 hours on the BNSFs North Dakota Funnel around Casselton and KO Junction Switch in October of 2008. BNSF North Dakota Funnel in two hours and 23 minutes long. The two DVD set sells for $38.95 plus the usual $5.00 for S&H.

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[trainboy32]

awesome video