Oklahoma Statewide Freight and Passenger Rail Plan

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Chapter 2 Figure 2-5 U.S. high-speed rail corridors 2010, the Heartland Flyer won Amtrak’s President’s Award for its service. Future passenger rail in Oklahoma Three passenger railroad corridors are under evaluation for Oklahoma. Extension and expansion of the existing Heartland Flyer is being examined, as is service between Oklahoma City and Tulsa. ODOT and KDOT just completed a Service Development Plan looking at expansion of the Heartland Flyer from Oklahoma City to Newton, Kansas, as well as a new standalone daytime service between Kansas City and Fort Worth via Oklahoma City. TxDOT, in coordination with ODOT and KDOT, will soon begin a study looking at the corridor from Oklahoma City to southern Texas that will include examination of expanding the Heartland Flyer with a second frequency as well as performance improvements. And lastly, ODOT just began development of a service development plan and an environmental impact statement for the corridor from Oklahoma City to Tulsa. This line would connect both of Oklahoma’s million-person urban areas. Initially studied in 2001–2002, a preferred high-speed alignment was identified along the Turner Turnpike. This new study will reinvestigate all options, including those previously examined. 2-6 Oklahoma Statewide Freight and Passenger Rail Plan
3. Oklahoma Freight Railroads OKLAHOMA STATEWIDE FREIGHT & PASSENGER RAIL PLAN The State of Oklahoma has a freight rail network that serves as a key state economic driver moving a wide variety of products that either are produced or consumed in the State as well as move through the state. Its freight railroads are integral to the national and regional rail system. This section of the Oklahoma Statewide Freight and Passenger Rail Plan is an inventory of the freight railroads that operate within and through the state. Oklahoma has 21 railroad companies that provide freight rail service over 3,599 miles of railroad. In 2010, this ranked Oklahoma 18th in the nation in terms of the total railroad mileage. 1 The State of Oklahoma owns 428 miles of railroad. These lines are leased for operation by the state to Class III railroads. Class I Railroads The three Class I railroads in the state are BNSF, which operates 1,037 route-miles in the state, UP with 1173 route-miles, and KCS with 150 route-miles. These three railroads combined originated 183,238 carloads of freight and terminated 323,442 carloads of freight in Oklahoma in 2010. 2 Because of Oklahoma’s location near the middle of the country, the Class I railroads also transport a significant amount of rail freight traffic through the state that has neither an origin nor a destination within Oklahoma. A majority of this traffic is either coal from mines in northeast Wyoming to electric utilities in Texas and other southeast destinations or various goods moving between California ports and the Mid-West. Class I railroads have high volumes of trains per day, ranging in Oklahoma from approximately 10 trains per day on several Class I lines to nearly 60 trains per day on BNSF’s Transcon route. BNSF Railway BNSF operates the largest number of route-miles in the state and is also one of the largest rail networks in North America. BNSF owns approximately 23,000 miles of track and, additionally, operates over 9,000 miles of trackage rights on lines owned by other railroads throughout 28 states and 2 Canadian provinces. Through connections with railroads operating east of the Mississippi River, in Canada, and in Mexico, industries located on BNSF rails in Oklahoma can ship products to or receive products from any market in North America. Its connections to the Pacific Coast and Gulf of 1 Association of American Railroads 2 Association of American Railroads May 2012 3-1
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