Photos 15 October 2015

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.

Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

Maintenance-of-way workers use a track laying machine on top of a new trestle, which will carry a second main line, on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway Co. Southern Transcontinental line in Alva, Oklahoma, on Aug. 19, 2015.
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A BNSF Railway grain train approaches a crossover on the railroad's Southern Transcontinental line.
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A segment of rail hangs suspended off the ground before being attached to concrete cross ties by a track laying machine on BNSF Railway Southern Transcontinental line.
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A BNSF Railway intermodal train heads west on the railroad's Southern Transcontinental line in Belva.
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Concrete crossties sit stacked on a flatcar before being used to by maintenance-of-way workers laying track on the line.
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Maintenance-of-way workers plan their route for the day before laying new track.
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A BNSF Railway grain train heads west on the railroad's Southern Transcontinental line.
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