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Appendix D. Summary of Operating Railroads in Arizona Table D.1 - Summary of Operating Railroads in Arizona Railroad Ownership Trackage Miles Speed Limits BNSF Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific Corporation Class I Railroads Short Line Railroads 690 (main line and branch lines) 775 (main line and branch lines) 70 mph (90 mph Amtrak) 70 mph (79 mph Amtrak) Apache Railway Abitibi Bowater 45 (main line and branch line) 35 mph Arizona & California Railroad RailAmerica 190 (106 miles in Arizona) 49 mph Arizona Central Railroad The Western Group Arizona Eastern Railway Permian Basin Railways 38.7 main line (+2 miles of yard track) 135 main line (+5 miles of smelter trackage) 10 mph 20 mph Black Mesa & Lake Powell Railroad Navajo Nation/Hopi Tribe 78 40 mph Camp Navajo Railroad Arizona National Guard 38 10 mph Copper Basin Railway ASARCO LLC (American Smelting And Refining Company) Freeport McMoRan Morenci Mine 54.6 main line (+6 miles branches) 25 mph Freeport McMoRan 15 Yard Limits San Pedro & Southwestern Arizona Rail Group 7.5 (main line) 20 mph APS Cholla Power Plant Arizona Public Service 7 (loop, yard and spur trackage) Yard Limits Grand Canyon Railway Xanterra Parks & Resorts 64 main line (+1 mile of yard trackage) 40 mph Arizona State Rail Plan March 2011 A-51
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Arizona State Rail Plan March 2011
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Acknowledgements The State Rail Pla
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Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introd
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5.1.7 Section 130 Highway-Rail Grad
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List of Figures Figure 1 - Carbon D
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Abbreviations AA Alternatives Analy
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TEP Transportation Enhancements Pro
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High-speed rail: A mode that provid
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Chapter 1. Introduction and Overvie
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Arizona, BNSF Railway Company (BNSF
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Chapter 2. Arizona Rail Vision, Goa
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Objectives: • Enhance the safety
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Figure 1 - Carbon Dioxide Emissions
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The highest percentage of inbound r
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Through Rail Freight Through traffi
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Table 4 - Summary of Comparable Amt
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Lake City (also the cities with the
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2.8 Updates to this Rail Plan This
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Chapter 3. Issues and Opportunities
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Figure 8 - Integrated Statewide Pas
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3.1.1 Intercity Passenger Rail Syst
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The two Amtrak lines serving Arizon
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Figure 10 - Freeway with Flexibilit
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The Verde Canyon Tourist Railroad b
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Figure 11 - Congressionally Designa
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Phoenix and Albuquerque, cost $18.2
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3.1.4 Tourist Railroads Opportunity
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Background Approximately 130 millio
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also increase opportunities for imp
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By moving switching activities for
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The State’s biggest opportunity i
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throughout the State. Secondary Cla
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BNSF runs only about ten trains a d
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the line. Generally speaking, rail
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Figure 18 - Potential Phoenix-Las V
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the BNSF (near Surprise) and UPRR (
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esponsibility and authority for eva
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for completion of high-priority gra
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Opportunities Investing in wildlife
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Chapter 4. Proposed Rail Projects A
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4.2 Arizona Spine Corridor The Ariz
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from Williams to Phoenix, but servi
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Figure 29 - UPRR Nogales Subdivisio
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and throughout the state. The inten
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Figure 32 - Arizona Spine Corridor
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The BNSF Mobest Yard located near t
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Partner with UPRR to implement oper
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4.3 CANAMEX Corridor The CANAMEX Co
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Traffic on the Nogales Subdivision
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and environmental clearances can ta
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up by the local, taken back to Mobe
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y MAG in its I-10/Hassayampa Valley
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Table 18 - Canamex Corridor Long-Te
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4.4 Route 66 Corridor Route 66 corr
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Figure 40 - BNSF Coronado & Springe
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Figure 43 - Route 66 Corridor of Op
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Traffic levels along the BNSF mainl
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4.4.6 Implementation Several implem
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There are several Short Line railro
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Figure 47 - San Pedro & Southwester
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4.5.3 Passenger Rail Opportunities
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improved efficiency. Additional imp
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Construct and operate a Phoenix to
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Completing a planning process which
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4.6 Recommended Statewide Opportuni
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Chapter 5. Funding of Proposed Rail
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elimination of at-grade crossings b
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new rail services. In March 2008, P
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Page 183 and 184: Subdivision (Peavine) received mixe
Page 185 and 186: Attendees: Kevin Wallace, MAG Jack
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