December 9, 2025 - TRA Newswire -

Seeing the current and future demand for freight rail service in the Lone Star state, BNSF Railway continues to add double-track segments in a key north-south Texas route.

BNSF has completed a new section of double track on its Fort Worth Subdivision, a 3.5 mile long section in the Saginaw, Texas area. 

It's all part of a larger, multi-year expansion project that runs as far south as Temple, Texas on this busy rail corridor. The Class 1 railroad indicated that it has only two miles left to add a second main line track from Lambert, which is north of Alliance Airport, to Tower 55 near downtown Fort Worth, one of the busiest rail crossings in the country. 

The Fort Worth Subdivision runs from Gainesville on the north to Temple on the south, some 193 miles, and hosts numerous freight trains along with the Amtrak Texas Eagle and Heartland Flyer on what was primarily a single track railroad with passing sidings before the current expansion started. Longer freight trains have led to extensions of sidings to form a second main track to keep cargo moving. 

In a news statement BNSF stated that the “additional capacity opens up more growth opportunity for our customers, improving efficiency across another important section of our vast network.”

Expansion is also occurring on the mighty BNSF Southern Transcon which runs from California to Illinois is almost complete with an additional 12 miles of second main track added to the Emporia Subdivision in Kansas. Jon Gabriel, BNSF Group VP of Consumer Products said in a post that "BNSF Railway's one of a kind 2,200 mile Southern Transcon between LA and Chicago is at 99.995% double, triple or quadruple tracked."

Photo credit: BNSF Railway