Martin Lake Line

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{{Infobox rail

| name =Texas Utilities Martin Lake Line

| parent_company =Luminant

| marks =TUGX

| locale =Martin Lake Power Plant

| gauge = {{track gauge|ussg|allk=on}}

| electrification =25 kV AC, 60 Hz (1976-2011)

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The Martin Lake Line is a railroad owned and operated by Texas Utilities and hauled Lignite coal from nearby mines at the Oak Hill Mine and Beckville Mine, until their closures in the later 2010's, to the Martin Lake Power Plant and has a connection with the BNSF Railway's Longview Subdivision near Tatum, TX. Coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming is transferred onto the line via the connection with BNSF. The line was constructed as an electrified line, using 25 kV AC, 60 Hz electrification, and operated GE E25Bs and former Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México GE E60s;{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AdQnAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Martin+Lake+Line%22 |title=Model Railroad Craftsman |date=1978 |publisher=Carstens Pub. |language=en|quote=First used on Texas Utilities Company's 11-mile Monticello line , which is home to a trio of the motors , two more just went into service on the Martin Lake line ...}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZjlWAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Martin+Lake+Line%22 |title=Extra Twenty-two Hundred South |date=2000 |publisher=Dover Printing. |language=en|quote=5510 and 5533 work on the Monticello line , and 5516 and 5521 on the Martin Lake line . -Staff Transglobal Railh ...}} however, the line was de-electrified in 2011.{{Cite journal |last=Harwell |first=Jeffrey A. |date=Feb 2012 |title=From electric to diesel |journal=Trains Magazine |volume=72 |issue=2 |pages=50–51 |eissn=0041-0934 |via=ProQuest}}