Sunset Route

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freight rail line railroad corridor

Sunset Route is a historic transcontinental railroad corridor across the southern United States that inspired the name of Amtrak’s long-distance Sunset Limited passenger train.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	freight rail line → railroad corridor →
connectsCity	El Paso → Houston NERFINISHED → Los Angeles → New Orleans → Phoenix region (via branches and connections) → San Antonio → Tucson →
crosses	Arizona → California → Louisiana → New Mexico → Texas →
electrification	not electrified →
formerlyOperatedBy	Southern Pacific Railroad →
gauge	standard gauge →
hasDirection	east–west →
hasEndPoint	New Orleans, Louisiana →
hasFormerOwner	Southern Pacific Transportation Company →
hasMajorJunction	Colton, California → El Paso, Texas → Houston, Texas NERFINISHED → New Orleans, Louisiana → San Antonio, Texas → Yuma, Arizona →
hasNickname	Sunset Route →
hasOwner	Union Pacific Railroad →
hasPrimaryFunction	freight transportation corridor →
hasSecondaryFunction	passenger transportation corridor →
hasStartPoint	Los Angeles, California →
historicalRole	key link between Pacific Coast and Gulf Coast → major southern transcontinental freight corridor →
inspiredNameOf	Amtrak Sunset Limited →
isSegmentOf	transcontinental rail route between Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico →
locatedIn	United States → southern United States →
openedForThroughService	late 19th century →
operatedBy	Union Pacific Railroad →
partOf	Union Pacific Railroad network →
partOfCorridor	Los Angeles–New Orleans rail corridor →
passesNear	Mexican border →
trackConfiguration	primarily double-track main line →
usedByService	Sunset Limited →
usedFor	intermodal freight transportation → long-distance passenger service → manifest freight trains → unit trains →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Sunset Route →	hasNickname
Sunset Limited →	namedAfter
Southern Pacific Railroad →	operatedRoute