After this year, BNSF Railway Co. will be more than 99 percent finished with a second, parallel line to its 2,200-mile Los Angeles-to-Chicago route. Doubling up will create a rail superhighway speeding deliveries of toys, electronics, autos and other goods, because trains won’t have to yield to each other on sidings as they do on single tracks. The goal: help the unit of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. grab cargo now going by road.
Read more from the Bloomberg News report by Thomas Black.
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