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[vc_row full_width=””][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]After this year,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>BNSF<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Railway Co.\u00a0<\/span>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\u2019t have to yield to each other on sidings as they do on single tracks.\u00a0 The goal: help the unit of Buffett\u2019s\u00a0Berkshire Hathaway Inc.\u00a0<\/span>grab cargo now going by road.<\/p>\n

Read more from the Bloomberg News report by Thomas Black.<\/a><\/p>\n

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A noisy yellow machine laying down railroad track near Alva, Oklahoma – as much as a mile a day of concrete and steel – is Warren Buffett’s solution to the industry\u2019s dwindling coal traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1586,"featured_media":12720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1842,45,1190,1840],"class_list":["post-12722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","tag-bnsf","tag-luke-sharrett","tag-trains","tag-transportation","product-photos"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Rail Superhighway | Bloomberg Media Distribution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/distribution\/blog\/2015-10-15\/rail-superhighway\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Rail Superhighway | Bloomberg Media Distribution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A noisy yellow machine laying down railroad track near Alva, Oklahoma - 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