![]() The flyover - which cost approximately $34 million - eliminates an estimated 35,000 at-grade crossover moves per year, and the accompanying operational disruptions. ![]() “Eastbound trains have to be on the south track climbing through the canyons ,” says Rasmussen, “and then they have to be over on the north track by the time they get to Belen.” It is here that the railroad constructed its Truxton Natural Flyover, allowing trains to change main tracks to take advantage of more favorable grades when coming from Needles, Calif., while remaining properly aligned for refueling and inspections at the crew-change point in Belen, N.M. ![]() Remote and obscure though it may be, Truxton plays an oversized role in BNSF’s efforts to maintain traffic flows on its Southern Transcon, the former Santa Fe Railway route between Los Angeles and Chicago. Officially, as of the 2020 census, 104 people live in the hamlet 42 miles northeast of Kingman, Ariz., on U.S. “Population: very small,” says Craig Rasmussen, BNSF Railway assistant vice president, engineering services and structures. Truxton, Ariz., is not exactly one of the metropolitan centers of the American Southwest. BNSF’s Truxton Flyover project BNSF’s Truxton Flyover: The Truxton Flyover bridge not only had to cross the BNSF Railway main line below, but the Truxton Wash, subject to occasional extreme water flows.
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