BNSF North Dakota Funnel DVD

The twenty five miles of track between Moorhead Junction, Minnesota, just across the Red River from Fargo, North Dakota, and KO Junction Switch, west of Casselton, where the former Great Northern and Northern Pacific lines split, is as busy as any section of track on BNSF’s main line between the Twin Cities and the Pacific Northwest. All trains on BNSF’s main line from Chicago to Portland and Seattle and all trains on the former NP main to Montana traverse this strategic section of track. At KO Junction Switch, the transcontinental main line, often referred to as the Hi Line because much of it is close to the Canadian border, heads northwest towards Minot and the West Coast on former Great Northern track, while the former Northern Pacific main, now part of BNSF’s northern coal corridor, heads straight west towards Jamestown and Bismarck. This funnel also sees a lot of grain headed to ports in the Pacific Northwest. A manned tower that was taken down shortly after the Burlington Northern merger, used to control the grade crossing of the two main lines at Casselton. Today, all of this track including the junction is controlled by BNSF’s network operations center in Fort Worth. This program shows all of the trains for 24 hours on the BNSF’s North Dakota Funnel around Casselton and KO Junction Switch in October of 2008.  This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.