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In the 1950’s, the Argentine Yard was built as a dual hump yard with eastbound and westbound classification yards. The eastbound classification yard has 48 classification tracks leading to 14 departure tracks with 23 receiving tracks. The westbound classification yard has 53 classification tracks, 16 receiving tracks and 14 departure roads. Then after rebuilding in 1996-97, the single hump yard has 60 classification tracks, 10 receiving tracks and 10 departure tracks.
Today, the Argentine yard consists of a freight classification yard and is also equipped with diesel maintenance facilities. As a 780-acre facility, Argentine Yard is the largest freight-car classification facility on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe system and is one of the largest yards of its type in the United States. The BNSF rail line converges at Kansas City, serving as a major hub where freights are transferred between several major railroads making Kansas City the second busiest U.S. rail center. It has a theoretical capacity of 5760 cars per day, but based on 1996 statistics, the yard handled about 2000 cars per day.
(Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center)
Marty Bernard posted six photos with the comment:
A Look Around Santa Fe's yards and shops, Argentine, KS -- 1985
Duane Hall must have been attending a model railroader convention in Kansas City and the field trip was to Santa Fe's Argentine.Yard and Shops. I just found box of his slides taken around the yard.
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Hunter Davila: It’s funny how most of the power stored there are Older GE standard cabs, along with SD45-2’s in there.. The most unreliable equipment ATSF could’ve ordered, with the GE’s constantly blowing something, being a turbo, and those SD45-2’s losing crankcase pressure and breaking crankcase rods.
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| 1 That must be the bus they came on. |
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| 2 Santa Fe yards and shops, Argentine, KS, January 1985 Duane Hall photo. |
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| 3 Santa Fe yards and shops, Argentine, KS, January 1985, Duane Hall photo |
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| 4 Santa Fe yards and shops, Argentine, KS, January 1985, Duane Hall photo |
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| 5 Santa Fe yards and shops, Argentine, KS, January 1985, Duane Hall photo |
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| 6 Santa Fe yards and shops, Argentine, KS, January 1985, Duane Hall photo |
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| Bob Chaparro posted Santa Fe’s Argentine Freight House Photo courtesy of Classic Trains. Description: “The Santa Fe built a large, new freight station at Argentine, Kan., in 1961. The office building portion included offices for agents, the railroad’s transportation company, and division freight traffic personnel. The facility featured indoor tracks and automated cart tracks for more efficient operation. Santa Fe photo.” Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA Henry Sommers: LCL. Less than Carload Lots. Back when virtually anyone could send freight. Usually larger and heavier than what Railway Express would accept. |
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| BNSF Railway posted Located in Kansas City, the second busiest U.S. rail center behind Chicago, is BNSF’s 780-acre Argentine Yard. Today it is the largest classification yard on our network for merchandise traffic, including everything from chemicals, plastics and construction products to paper, lumber, food, beverages and more. So, because of its importance to the network, the yard has to be kept up to date and in top condition – but it can’t be taken out of service for long. Read more about how BNSF employees gave the yard a facelift within 48 hours at https://bit.ly/452yBCj. |
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