North American System

North American System

System map overlaying of Current North American Rail Lines.
Reporting mark	NAS, NASX, NTSR, TOS
Dates of operation	March 22, 1969 (1969-03-22)–present
Predecessor	List of Predecessor Railroads of the NAS
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length	32,500 miles (52,300 km)
Parent Company	NAS Corporation
Headquarters	Seattle, Washington
Website	NAS.com

The North American System (Reporting Mark: NAS NASX NTSR TOS), Officially the North American System Corporation is a Class I Railroad that runs in the Western United States and Central United States of America along with the Western Portion of Canada. The NAS has 45,000 Empolyees 41,000+ Miles of Trackage and is Headquartered in Seattle, Washington and is under the North American System Holding Company. The System was formed on Feburary 19th 1969 by a Merger of 6 Railroads with the Largest Portion coming from the Northern States Railroad.

The NAS Has 4 Transcontiential Mainlines providing Connections from Manitoba to Vancouver BC, St Paul to Seattle, St Louis to LA and Seattle Via Denver to Mexico City. The Railroad rosters over 4000 Locomotives across the Three countries and is North America's second Biggest Railroad behind BNSF Railway. The Company is lead by CEO Victoria K. Schmidt and President John E. Boylston.

History

NAS Merger

NAS would be formed by 6 Railroads, the NSR, TBD, TBD, TBD, TBD, TBD. The Merger was to combat the Automobile and Airplane Bussinesses being the largest Merger at the time in 1969 until the introduction of M

Operations

Yards and facilities

Yards

Vancouver Terminal Scramento Yard Berlin Yard (Portland) Everett East Yard Alpha Yard (MT) Overseer Yard (UT)

Hump Yards

Renton Yard North Los Angeles Yard St Louis Superyard Calgary Yard Austin Yard Houston Yard Denver Yard

Equipment

Locomotives

F59PHI 2

Accidents and Incidents

2020s

November 7th 2023, A NAS Steam Locomotive runs a Red Signal and crashes into a Moving Freight Train outside of Austin.