Talk:Northern BNSF Route

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[edit] Proposed move

I'm not sure what the proper name for this route is, just used "Northern BNSF Route" as a temporary name. Someone in the know, please fix this. MrZaius^talk 19:10, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

See Hi-Line. A merge would be appropriate.Kablammo 12:06, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyedit - explanation?

Please specify specific issues or remedy them. A quick scan through reveals no major issues. MrZaius^talk 15:52, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Although I didn't place the tag, I have a couple of suggestions for improvement beyond copyediting...

• The article could use a dedicated lead section and a more thorough explanation of the line's history from construction through to today. Since a lot of the construction information is in other articles like Northern Pacific Railway, we can probably get away with summary style for part of the history section.
• All of the images in the gallery are from Washington, but the route extends to Chicago; we need to show images from along the entire route (I have uploaded photos from Illinois and Wisconsin, and I can easily get more from these two states as I am in Madison) and we need to display them in a better format so they're not all clumped together at the bottom of the page.
• The article has no references.
• There is very little on how the BNSF uses the line today. We can probably extract some data from the railroad's annual reports (which are all on the BNSF website, dating back to the first BNSF annual report in 1995) and from journals such as Trains or any of a multitude of others.

As this line plays an important role in today's transportation, we should be able to do better than the start class article that we have today. Slambo (Speak) 10:44, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

This line is used by the Z-trains (the high priority intermodals) between the port of Seattle and the midwest. Today this is where the money is. With just-in-time inventory controls, it is not the lowest cost but the quickest time that gets the business. This is a fast direct route which means crossing the Cascade Mountains with a 2.2% grade as opposed to the longer flat route around them up the Columbia River Gorge even though it requires far more fuel. 24.19.45.169 (talk) 16:39, 12 January 2008 (UTC)