User talk:Ericabaker63

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Railroad subdivisions
Erica, I really like what you did with adding the subdivisions to the California Zephyr article. I played with the formatting a bit and tried to clean it up a little. My $.02 is lets give it some time to see if it gets refined any further, and then copy and/or move this content to the article Central Corridor (Union Pacific Railroad), Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad) and whatever the equivalent article is for the BNSF portion (I've never heard the BNSF line identified by name, does it have one?). Dave (talk) 02:50, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Response and Reply
Thank you for reaching out to me. A brief history about myself, I worked in the industry for ten years as a quality assurance auditor. Our customers were Union Pacific, Burlington Northern & Santa Fe (BNSF) CSX, Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern, Canadian Pacific, Canadian National Railroad, and railroads in Mexico and Central America and Australia. I had to know the AAR reporting marks for wheel shops and other repair facilities all over North America, this included those that were considered by the AAR as "Out of Network" that fed traffic in and out of Class 1 rail companies. So it didn't matter if the traffic was coming in and out of Seattle Washington via BNSF or Atlanta Georgia via CSX, traffic was traffic, and I had to know where the traffic was going in and out of.

As you know, the Union Pacific Overland Route was as result of the efforts of two companies, the Central Pacific, and the Union Pacific. in the late 1800's with the race to Promontory. As a result of the growth of Salt Lake City Utah, the traffic was shunted south of the Great Salt Lake onto what is now the Lynndyl and Shafter Subdivisions. The current routing for the Overland Route is the Current Union Pacific Central Transcon, that begins in Omaha Nebraska to the west coast ports in Oakland California and Alameda Island. I will describe the Union Pacific Transcon below;

Feeders Subdivisions in the Omaha Nebraska region include;
 * Sioux City Subdivision; from Sioux City Iowa to California Junction Iowa
 * Boone Subdivision; from Boone Iowa to Missouri Valley Iowa
 * Omaha Subdivision; from Missouri Valley Iowa to Freemont Nebraska
 * Blair Subdivision; from Missouri Valley Iowa to Freemont Nebraska

Freemont Nebraska plays a vital role in the formation of the transcon itself. It takes all the subs in the Omaha Nebraska/Council Bluffs Iowa region and shunts the traffic west from the Omaha and Blair Subs into a single focal point. Now from Freemont Nebraska to the ports in Oakland California, let's begin.
 * Columbus Subdivision; from Freemont Nebraska to Grand Island Nebraska
 * Kearney Subdivision from Grand Island Nebraska to The North Platte River Crossing east to North Platte Nebraska
 * North Platte Terminal Subdivision; This sub will carry the transcon through Bailey Yard in North Platte Nebraska to Olson Farms, west of North Platte Nebraska.
 * Sidney Subdivision; from Olson Farms, west of North Platte Nebraska to Cheyenne Wyoming
 * Laramie Subdivision; from Cheyenne Wyoming to Rawlins Wyoming
 * Rawlins Subdivision; from Rawlins Wyoming to Green River Wyoming
 * Evanston Subdivision; from Green River Wyoming to Ogden Utah
 * Salt Lake Subdivision; from Ogden Utah to Salt Lake City Utah
 * Lynndyl Subdivision; from Salt Lake City Utah to Kennecott Smelter west of Salt lake City Utah
 * Shafter Subdivision; from Kennecott Smelter, west of Salt Lake City Utah to Elko Nevada
 * Elko Subdivision; from Elko Nevada to Winnemucca Nevada
 * Nevada Subdivision; From Winnemucca Nevada to Sparks Nevada
 * Roseville Subdivision; from Sparks Nevada to Roseville California
 * Martinez Subdivision; from Roseville California to the Oakland International Gateway Ports and Intermodal Yard in Oakland California.

I hope this information is useful. We are here to learn together. 170.76.163.34 (talk) 11:07, 9 November 2019 (UTC)EricaBaker63

January 2020
Hello, I'm Magnolia677. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Independence, Kansas, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. ''Also, please take a moment to read External links. Thank you.'' Magnolia677 (talk) 14:30, 14 January 2020 (UTC)