Monday, Nov. 20th, was the official start of "Peak Season". From then till Christmas Eve, supply chain companies will see their highest volume of packages of the year. To tackle this logistical challenge, BNSF and UPS team up to provide high priority service for the holiday packages. Chief Dispatchers, Division Superintendents, and Terminal Trainmasters are carefully monitoring the progress of their precious UPS Z-trains as they traverse the BNSF's system to and from UPS Hubs; willing to delay all other trains to prevent the Z-trains from being late. Trains from Los Angeles to Chicago will be running multiple sections to keep up with the increase demand for the holiday rush.
Just in time for Peak Season was the completion of of the new third mainline from Needles, CA to the top of Goffs Hill at Goffs. The new triple main has helped create better routing for trains on the busy Needles Subdivision as they battle a 1.5% grade. Z-trains with five or six locomotives on the point have no issue climbing the grade with speeds of nearly 50 MPH. To the east of Needles, on the Seligman Subdivision, those same UPS Z-trains move at track speed of 70 MPH to stay on time on their tight coast to coast schedule. Enjoy part two of this two part video showing off BNSF's Southern Transcon during its busiest time of the year.
Here's a listed off all of the trains in this video, as well as locomotives. In the video, UPS Z-Trains are highlighted with the number of UPS shipments are on that train.
1: Z WSPSTO7 16A - BNSF 3742, BNSF 9011, BNSF 8148, BNSF 7656
2: Q CHISBD6 16X - BNSF 7944, BNSF 7845, BNSF 4453, BNSF 6739
3: Z SBDWSP2 18P - BNSF 7381, BNSF 7551, BNSF 6187, BNSF 7020, BNSF 7401, BNSF BNSF 6194
4: Z WSPLAC8 16A - BNSF 8156, BNSF 6719, BNSF 5202, BNSF 4184
5: Z ALTSBD8 17A - BNSF 6821, BNSF 3894, BNSF 6679, BNSF 5984
6: Z NYCLAC4 16A - BNSF 5785, BNSF 7616, BNSF 7521, BNSF 5263, BNSF 6950, BNSF 8118
7: G SWEGUC3 10C - CP 9801 9361, CP 9732, BNSF 5628, BNSF 732
8: H BARTUL9 19A - BNSF 7067, BNSF 5831, BNSF 8079
9: Z WSPLAC8 17P - BNSF 7075 , BNSF 7823, BNSF 8199, BNSF 5652
10: Z SBDWSP2 19U - BNSF 5865, BNSF 4221, BNSF 5510, BNSF 6975, BNSF 4602
11: Q ALTLAC3 17A - BNSF 7366, BNSF 4343, BNSF 7536
12: Z LACWSP2 19U - BNSF 7467, BNSF 4263, BNSF 5122, BNSF 3835, BNSF 8595, BNSF 8550
13: Z WSPSBD3 17A - BNSF 8383, BNSF 6803, BNSF 3741, BNSF 5090, BNSF 7481
14: Z AUGSBD8 17A - BNSF 6752, BNSF 4243, BNSF 8266
15: Z LACWSP1 19P - BNSF 3798, BNSF 4427, BNSF 7037, BNSF 6795, BNSF 5625, BNSF 5236
16: Z LACLPK6 19U - BNSF 7857, 6116, BNSF 761, BNSF 5429, BNSF 9065
17: Z SBDWSP1 19A - BNSF 7944, BNSF 7845, BNSF 4453, BNSF 6739, BNSF 3962
18: Z LACCXB7 19P - BNSF 3975, BNSF 5115, BNSF 4017, BNSF 5362, BNSF 7153
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27 дек 2023
