Tacoma Rail
Tacoma Rail until 1998 Tacoma Municipal Belt Line Railway (AAR reporting mark: TMBL, TRMW ) is an American railway companies in the city of Tacoma, Washington and surrounding areas. The company is owned by the city and is one of the " Tacoma Public Utilities." Tacoma Rail has over one hundred employees and is traveling with 18 locomotives of various series a route network of approximately 328 kilometers.
History
Tacoma Rail emerged from the Municipal Street Railway. The company started in 1889 with a tram service to the industrial areas of the city. 1914, the company was a public transport company and in the following years the route network was expanded considerably. In 1918 the company also began freight between the port and the customer in the city to perform. In the 20s, the name change to Tacoma Municipal Belt Line Railway was. The passenger was discontinued in 1948. In 1955, the company is part of the Tacoma Department of Public Utilities (now Tacoma Public Utilities ). In 1998, one operating on the route of the former Tacoma Eastern Railroad Morton and Chehalis. In the same year the name was changed in Tacoma Rail as part of a realignment of urban societies. On 16 November 2004 it took over from the BNSF Railway operating some routes in the area of Olympia ( Washington).
Stretch
Tacoma Rail shares its routes into three divisions. The " Tidelands Division " is the original route area around the port of Tacoma.
The "Mountain Division " means the former stretching which was founded on July 14, 1890 Tacoma Tacoma Eastern Railroad Junction ( connection to the Union Pacific Railroad ) by Morton, branching according to National and Ashford as well as the route to Chehalis. There is a transition to the Union Pacific and BNSF to. This railway company was taken over in 1918 by the Milwaukee Road. As this 1980 ceased its operation on the Pacific route, the forestry company Weyerhaeuser bought the route and operating it from 1981 to 1992, through its subsidiary Chehalis Western Railroad. In 1990, a small part of the route of the city Tacoma has been paid. 1995 sold Weyerhaueser the rest of the way for $ 3.1 million to the city. The operation of the route through the Tacoma Eastern Railway took place in the years 1992 to 1997. Since 1998, the Tacoma Rail operates the 212 km long route The route itself is mainly known through the 8.5 km long slope with a maximum slope of 3.6% to Hillsdale.
The ' Capital Division " comprises three separate sections which are not connected to the rest of the network. These routes have been taken over by the BNSF 2004. It involves former routes of the Northern Pacific Railroad and the Oregon - Washington Railroad and Navigation. The " Belmore / East Olympia Line" runs from East Olympia on the BNSF line from Tacoma to Portland via Olympia to Belmore. The " Quadlok Line" also results from the BNSF route to an industrial site at Quadlok. The 24 km long " Lakeview Line" leads from the BNSF route to Tacoma.
After classification of the AAR, the operation applies to the Mountain Division as a side rail operation (Local railroad ), while the rest under shunting ( switching railroad ) is expected.
Locomotives
Tacoma Rail now has a fleet of two EMD SW1200, EMD MP15AC four, six modernized by NRE GP20, and one each EMD SD40, EMD SD40 -2, EMD GP38 EMD GP38 EMD GP40 -2 and two -2. In autumn 2007, the trial run of a genset locomotive 2GS -14B from National Railway Equipment was. Previously, the Company also locomotives from ALCO were in use. Above all the types of S-1 and S- fourth