North American System

North American System

Official Map of the NAS Since 2013 with North American Lines over it.
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	41,000 miles (66,000 km)
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 40000 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 March 22nd 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 Corporation's Management and Railroad is lead by CEO Victoria K. Schmidt and President John E. Boylston.

History

Background of the Formers of the NAS

Northern States Railroad

The Northern States Railroad (Reporting Mark NSR) would be chartered in 1891 to Rival the Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway and Milwaukee Road being formed of many abandoned lines by smaller railroads by the US Federal Government being merged with 6 Other Railroads in 1969 to form the North American System. The NSR would be a Class I railroad being one of the most profitable during the early 1900s and 1940s as the Railroad being a Major Rival had to do very treachrous things and introduce new tech and better marketing to win Customers over the GN and MILW.

NSR Had 3 Passenger Services with the Most Popular being the Trans-American Express which would run from Chicago via Billings and Bellingham down to Seattle and its Communter Service in Washington, Plus the Rocky Mountaineer Flyer. Both the Communter Srvice and the TAE would be discountied in 1970 by the NAS with the RMF being handled by the nowandays NAS RMFS. NSR would be a major part of the North American System Merger being the largest railroad in it and would be one of the causes for the Burlington Northern Merger.

NAS Merger

Formation of NAS

Perserved NSR HQ in Seattle

NAS would be formed by 6 Railroads, the Northern States Railroad, Utah Western Railroad, Kansas City and Northern, West Cascade Railway South Coast Transportation, Texas Oaklahoma System. The Merger was to combat the Automobile and Airplane Businesses being the largest Merger at the time in 1969 until the introduction of Burlington Northern. NAS being a fairly new Railroad would only have its Intercity Trains inherited from the NSR and the Others for 2 Years before only serving Commuter Trains which only one existing being the St Louis Corridor (NAS).

NAS would inherit the Name of the NSR for 2 Years before changing to NAS showing that its runs in the three countries of Canada and Mexico. NAS would also be one of the Few Railroads in testing many different GE and EMD Locomotives along with Experiments in 1975 known as the North Cargo Express or the NCE which would be a testing phase of using faster locomotives and freight cars in transporting from the St Paul Hub to the Port of Seattle in under 2 days. The Project would soon go under in the Wake of the 1970s energy crisis. NAS Would also be one of the first testers/buyers of the then EMD SD50. (Soon after these would be rebuilt into SD50-2's and then SD50-3's.

Impact of the BNSF Merger

Burlington Northern was and has been NAS's Biggest Competetior in the Northern Part of the United States with them being the only competition due to Milwaukee Road going out of business in the 80s leaving the north to BN and NAS for decades until 1995 when the failed Santa Fe Pacific Corporation with Santa Fe Industries and its Company the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, being bought by Burlington Northern and merged forming Burlington Northern Santa Fe in 1995 introducing an entirely new company that would rival the System seeing more Customers now between two Massive Corporations with BNSF being one major company and NAS Being another the only difference being Chicago. in 2008 BNSF would be bought out by Berkshire Hathaway, introducing new ownership to BNSF and the Reforming causing NAS to do its own Reforms and improvements to catch up with the Class I. NAS would also partner with BNSF in the Pandemic to increase traffic with that Partnership still going on as of December 26th 2023.

Operations

Management

The Corporation's Management and Railroad is lead by CEO Victoria K. Schmidt and COO John E. Boylston

CEO

The CEO of NAS is Henden K. Schmidt.

COO

The COO of NAS is John E. Boylston.

Board of Directors

There is 8 Board of Directors of the NAS All Leading One Branch

Yards and facilities

Yards

Major Intermodal Terminals on the NAS System.

• Vancouver Terminal
• Sacramento Yard
• Berlin Yard (Portland)
• Everett East Yard
• Alpha Yard (CA)
• Overseer Yard (UT)

Hump Yards

Major Hump Yards on the NAS System.

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

Equipment

Locomotives

As of October 2023 NAS rosters over 3700 Locomotives

Type	Quantity
F59PHI	2
GP38-2	98
GP40-2	90
GP50-2	60
G60	40
SD40-3	60
SD40-2	200
SD60M	30
SD70MR	120
SD70ACU	95
B40-8W	50
SD70ACe	149
AC44C6M	250
ET44AH	119
ES44AH	185
C44-9W	160
ES44DC	181
ES50CWE	154
SD40M-2	10
C40-8W	53
C40-9W	165
C40-8W	15
AC44CW	139
ES44AC	100
SD70AC	49
SD70MAc	149
ES44AC	125
GP20D	9
SD9043MAc	35
GP40P	3
SD90MAc-H	2
SD40-2F	44
SD40-3F	49
GP25-ECO	40
GP60B	69
SD70ACe-T4	100

Accidents and Incidents

July 19th Amtrak Derailment.

1970s

List of Accidents in the 1970s

• January 8th 1971, An NAS Local train rear ends theEmpire Builder, in Orange Couty MI.

1980s

List of Accidents in the 1980s

• March 2nd 1980, NAS C40-9W burns on the Pacific Line.

1990s

List of Accidents in the 1990s

• July 19th 1980, Runaway Freight Cars from a Local hits the Amtrak Southwest Chief

• January 1st 1991 NAS Z-CHILOS slams into the Coast Starlight on a diamond derailing the Amtrak and the NAS Train and a Parked UP Ethanol in Southeast Los Angeles burning the surronding Downtown Area for Hours.

2000-2010s

2000s-2010s Accidents

• TL&M Interchange Train hits a NAS Train at 15 mph derailing 6 cars.

2020s

List of Accidents in the 2020s

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