I have no idea… can someone help?
Where can I find information on any areas in the U.S. that have underground high speed lines for Union Pacific?
I have no idea… can someone help?
Where can I find information on any areas in the U.S. that have underground high speed lines for Union Pacific?
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The underground high speed line directory?
Check the transom?
(yuk! yuk! yuk!)
I don’t know that you’re going to find “high speed” lines, but here are some projects that have undergrounded freight tracks in urban areas:
Reno ReTRAC (UPRR)
http://www.cityofreno.com/index.aspx?page=353
Alameda Corridor – Long Beach/LA (UPRR & BNSF)
http://www.acta.org/
Thank you for the links. If you find more information I would really appreciate it if you shared it here. Thanks.
Do you mean undergrounded fiber optic lines? Or do you mean underground rail lines?
If the former, they are all over the place, and you’d best contact the state and talk to someone at the PUC.
If the latter, easy answer: none. Union Pacific has no “high speed” rail lines anywhere. The only HSR in the USA is on the Amtrak Northest Corridor, and has nothing to do with UP.
The UP does have a mile of so long tunnel under North Portland, it runs from Swan Island to the BNSF bridge. As far as I can tell it was tunneled, not cut and cover, but I don’t know for sure. (Anyone know when it was built?) It isn’t high speed, (25 mph?) although I suspect that has a lot to do with the type of traffic is sees and the curves/switches at the ends, and not so much with the limitations on the tunnel in particular.
Yeah, the tunnel is slower speed mostly because of where the trains enter and exit. Generally the Portland area has morbidly slow access for rail, a real rough spot without a serious infrastructure change and motivation from the state and city.