Corwith Yards is a

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terminal located at Pershing Road (39th Street) &

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in the southwest side of

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, in the neighborhood of Brighton Park. At the time it was built by the

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The railroad was chartered in February 1859 to serve the cities of Atchison, Kansas, Atchison and Top ...

in 1888, it was the world's largest

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(nowadays, that title belongs to

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, another freight railroad yard owned and operated by BNSF's rival, the

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). With adjacent parking and buildings it covers nearly a square mile of land. In the late 19th century Corwith Yards was the end of the line for trains of

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loaded at AT&SF stations such as

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, and bound for the

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, as well as

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and other cargo from the western

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. Now called the Corwith Intermodal Facility, it now handles much more freight than it did in its 19th-century heyday, for the

BNSF Railway BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that ...

, mostly in the form of

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s. Corwith

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s load approximately 1900 containers per day.

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systems are used to sort & route the containers.

References

External links

Track Plans and Map of Corwith Yards
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