Lakeside Subdivision

This article is about a subdivision of the BNSF railway. For the similarly named subdivision of the Union Pacific Railroad, see Lucin Cutoff.

Lakeside Subdivision[3]
Legend
to Spokane Subdivision
1.1
 Sunset Junction
Jct.
 Columbia River Subdivision
9.3
 Marshall
Jct.
 Washington and Idaho Railway
Jct.
 Union Pacific
11.8
 Lakeside Jct.
15.0
 East Cheney[1]
16.6
 Cheney
19.8
 Babb
29.7
 Fishtrap
29.7
 [1]
42.4
 Sprague
51.1
 Keystone
57.8
 Tokio[1]
64.9
 Ritzville
69.3
 Essig
72.5
 Paha
80.5
 Lind
84.9
 Sand
90.8
 Beatrice
97.7
 Cunningham
101.0
 Hatton
109.7
 Connell
114.9
 Cactus
118.2
 Mesa
126.3
 Eltopia
137.0
 Glade
145.6
 Pasco
Pasco Station
Amtrak Empire Builder[2]
147.5
 SP&S Junction
Jct.
 Fallbridge Subdivision
Jct.
 Yakima Valley Subdivision

The Lakeside Subdivision is a railway line in eastern Washington running about 149.4 miles (240.4 km) from Sunset Junction, west of Spokane to Pasco. It is operated by BNSF Railway and is considered part of the Northern Transcon.

The line is used by the Portland section of Amtrak's Empire Builder.

History

The line originated from the former Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway and former Northern Pacific Railway.

To accommodate growing rail traffic throughout the Northwest Transcon, BNSF has been expanding[when?] rail sidings into expanded sections of double track. This includes a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) section of track that expanded the siding in Tokio to Ritzville.[4][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Kelly, Bruce E. (May 8, 2014). "BNSF's best days are just ahead". Railway Age. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
  2. ^ "Empire Builder Timetable" (PDF). Amtrak. March 16, 2020. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  3. ^ BNSF Northwest Division Timetable No. 5
  4. ^ "BNSF Tokio to Ritzville Double Track". David Evans and Associates Inc. Retrieved September 28, 2020.