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Word: transcon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Those sums will add to the railway's sizable investments since the old Burlington Northern and Santa Fe rails came together in 1995. Since that merger, the company has put down 600 new miles of rail, at $2 million a mile. With delays persisting along the busy transcon route, crews are out in the barren expanses of the Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle finishing up a two-year project to double track 100 miles of rail. BNSF is also rushing to add 344 GE locomotives--at a price of $1.3 million each--before federal investment incentives expire and more stringent pollution-control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On a Faster Track | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

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