I think Swift Transportation needs to update its map. It still shows Roadrailer service between the LA area and the Seattle area.
It looks like it. There hasn’t been Swift Roadrailer trains for the past few years.
The latest buzz about Swift is they are having their own container ship and thousands of containers built so they can get their trucks off the highways to save on fuel costs.
I was just in Sioux City, Iowa and the freshly printed city map at the motel listed the BNSF tracks as CM&SP (Milwaukee Road).
For those who remember the Piedmont & Northern, the maps in its Official Guide listing long showed a projected connection between its separate divisions. I also have an Official Airline Guide from 1983 that lists flight times for airlines that never quite started operations.
FWIW, mapmakers usually add a few intentional errors to prevent other mapmakers from simply copying it and using it as their own. Maybe thats what you found. HTH
GP. Great info. I’ve wondered about obvious errors in maps. Now I know.
Mapquest labels the UP yard in Sioux City and the lines into it as the BNSF. The real BNSF line is labeled Chicago & Northwestern.
You have to forgive Swift. They really are a large organization. And most of the time no one really knows what they’re doing.
Rgds IGN