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BN BN, do doo do do do (90s UK commercial)
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Awesome HO Scale BN Model Train Layout in HD - 2-21-2009
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Take a look at Tim Dickinson's wonderful HO Scale Burlington Northern empire as we follow a grain train, with manned helpers, over the mountain and through numerous yards and staging tracks. While the video shows an overall view of the ...
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Irishtimes.com: €1.4bn house is a work of art
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Wicklow native Frank Buckley turned to artwork to spark conversations about the euro crisis. Mr Buckley first created mixed-media art using decommissioned banknotes and then made an entire house in which to showcase his work. The house cont...
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Pub BN
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Pub BN poisson rouge envoyée par ma chère Debby =P realisateur: Jovann Leblanc. Agence: Publicis conseil. Production: Monkey movies....
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Bernard Madoff $50bn Ponzi Scheme - How Did He Do It?
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The whole Madoff story explained clearly. How Bernard Madoff stole 50 billion dollars from investors around the world in the biggest ever Ponzi Scheme. Info put together from several news sources across the internet....
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L'Histoire du BN
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Voici l'histoire du BN...
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BN E-Unit Funeral Train
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Waste your bandwith and watch it in high quality. A single Burlington Northern GP38AC hauls the remaining E-units through Naperville, IL on August 24, 1994. Taped by Victor Wagner (not me). BN GP38AC 2124 BN E-9A 9923 BN E-9A 9924 BN E-9A 9...
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Fallen Flags: BN at Palmer Lake
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BN SD40-2 8112, B30-7A(B) 4103, 4072 and SD40-2 6910 haul northbound freight on the Joint Line, Palmer Lake, CO 5/25/84. Same location as www.youtube.com...
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Sex video: Cops working in cahoots with BN, says PKR
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Party leaders claim the police are going around town claiming that Anwar Ibrahim is actually the main actor in the video. Full story: www.malaysiakini.com...
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3d Bn 1st Marines Firefight in southern Helmand Province at Patrol Base May
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The Taliban wait until theres a sand storm so theres no Close Air Support and they launch a sorry attack on our Patrol Base. As you can see they suck....
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VersaStudio BN-20 Desktop Inkjet Printer--Cutter.mp4
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The new Roland BN-20 desktop printer. To see more about the BN-20 go to the Roland DG UK web site www.rolanddg.co.uk...
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Awe­some HO Scale BN Model Train Lay­out in HD - 2-21-2009
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Bernard Mad­off $50bn Ponzi Scheme - How Did He Do It?
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BN E-Unit Fu­ner­al Train
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BN front­bench played tru­ant from Par­lia­ment Cham­ber (1 of 2)
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Fall­en Flags: BN at Palmer Lake
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Sex video: Cops work­ing in ca­hoots with BN, says PKR
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  • West Bengal Governor Shri MK Narayanan awards a merit certificate to Cdt Wangmu Bhutia of 4 Bengal Bn (Girls) NCC, Darjeeling at Rajbhavan on Tuesday in Eastern India City
    WN / Bhaskar Mallick
  • Sgt. Josh Coldwell, an assistant patrol leader with Mobile Assault Platoon 4, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment and native of Berlin, Mass., collects information from Afghan villagers during a patrol in the southern portion of the Washir district, Helmand province, Oct. 4. The Marines of Weapons Company, 1st Bn., 25th Marines have been familiarizing themselves with the southern border of Task Force Belleau Wood's battlespace since arriving in Afghanistan in September.
    USAF / USAF
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  • Camera arrangement of a camouflaged RA-3B of Heavy Photographic Squadron 61. The early A-3 variants had a crew of three: pilot, bombardier/navigator (BN) and crewman/navigator (aka: third crewman).
    Creative Commons / Cobatfor
  • B-29A-30-BN, 42-94106, on a long range mission. In addition to the logistic problems associated with operations from China, the B-29 could only reach a limited part of Japan while flying from Chinese bases.
    Creative Commons
  • CASIO Business Navigator BN-40A
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  • INDIA-CRPF-184-BATILIAN-RECOVER-ARMS-AMMUNATIONArms and ammunitions recovered by the CRPF 184 Bn from Ramchandrapur area in Jhargram seen displayed at the Jhargram Police Station in Eastern India ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
    WN / Bhaskar Mallick
  • INDIA-CRPF-184-BATILIAN-RECOVER-ARMS-AMMUNATIONArms and ammunitions recovered by the CRPF 184 Bn from Ramchandrapur area in Jhargram seen displayed at the Jhargram Police Station in Eastern India ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
    WN / Bhaskar Mallick
  • INDIA-CRPF-184-BATILIAN-RECOVER-ARMS-AMMUNATIONArms and ammunitions recovered by the CRPF 184 Bn from Ramchandrapur area in Jhargram seen displayed at the Jhargram Police Station in Eastern India ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
    WN / Bhaskar Mallick
  • INDIA-CRPF-184-BATILIAN-RECOVER-ARMS-AMMUNATIONArms and ammunitions recovered by the CRPF 184 Bn from Ramchandrapur area in Jhargram seen displayed at the Jhargram Police Station in Eastern India ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
    WN / Bhaskar Mallick
  • INDIA-CRPF-184-BATILIAN-RECOVER-ARMS-AMMUNATIONArms and ammunitions recovered by the CRPF 184 Bn from Ramchandrapur area in Jhargram seen displayed at the Jhargram Police Station in Eastern India ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
    WN / Bhaskar Mallick
  • INDIA-CRPF-184-BATILIAN-RECOVER-ARMS-AMMUNATIONArms and ammunitions recovered by the CRPF 184 Bn from Ramchandrapur area in Jhargram seen displayed at the Jhargram Police Station in Eastern India ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
    WN / Bhaskar Mallick
  • INDIA-CRPF-184-BATILIAN-RECOVER-ARMS-AMMUNATIONArms and ammunitions recovered by the CRPF 184 Bn from Ramchandrapur area in Jhargram seen displayed at the Jhargram Police Station in Eastern India ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
    WN / Bhaskar Mallick
  • INDIA-CRPF-DISTRABUTING-FOODCRPF jawan seen distributing food to the villagers of Chandabila in Jhargram in a CRPF 148 Bn public relation camp on Monday.// CRPF jawans seen distributing medicine to the patients in the health check up camp at Chandabila in Jhargram in Eastern India ------ WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
    WN / Bhaskar Mallick
  • INDIA-CRPF-DISTRABUTING-FOODCRPF jawan seen distributing food to the villagers of Chandabila in Jhargram in a CRPF 148 Bn public relation camp on Monday.// CRPF jawans seen distributing medicine to the patients in the health check up camp at Chandabila in Jhargram in Eastern India ------ WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
    WN / Bhaskar Mallick
  • Britten-Norman BN-2B-20 Islander. Tourism is the main source of income for Juist's economy. In almost all the buildings on the island are guest rooms
    Creative Commons / 4028mdk09
  • N188AM is a Britten Norman BN-2T Islander at the 2010 Farnborough Airshow
    Creative Commons / MilborneOne
  • A Britten Norman BN-2 Islander of the German airline OLT
    Public Domain / Garitzko
  • INDIA-GORKHA-TERRIER-ARMYTo mark the historic Golden Jubilee, the Gorkha Terriers will celebrate its 50th Raising Day on 01 and 02 October, 2010 at Darjeeling. During these 50 years the unit has participated in all operations viz 1962, 1965, 1971, Operation Vijay, Operatioon Parakram and C1/CT operations in J & K and North East sectors. The Gorkha Terriers have excelled in adventure activities i.e. mountaineering, high altitude trekking and cycle expeditions, sports and professional competitions
    WN / Bhaskar Mallick
  • INDIA-GORKHA-TERRIER-ARMYTo mark the historic Golden Jubilee, the Gorkha Terriers will celebrate its 50th Raising Day on 01 and 02 October, 2010 at Darjeeling. During these 50 years the unit has participated in all operations viz 1962, 1965, 1971, Operation Vijay, Operatioon Parakram and C1/CT operations in J & K and North East sectors. The Gorkha Terriers have excelled in adventure activities i.e. mountaineering, high altitude trekking and cycle expeditions, sports and professional competitions
    WN / Bhaskar Mallick
  • U.S. Marines assigned to Golf Battery, the artillery unit of Battalion Landing Team, 1st Bn., 6th Marines, make there way back to a Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC).
    US Navy / Cpl. Jemmsy Alvarez Jr.
  • An Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) assigned to 2nd LAR BN passes by a local AIDS clinic in Port-Au Prince, the capital city of Haiti.
    US Navy / Cpl Eric Ely.
  • File- Major General (MGEN) James N. Mattis, USMC, Commanding General, 1st Marine Division (MAR DIV), returns a salute from Marines of 1st Battalion (BN) 4th Marines about to be promoted, at Camp Commando, Kuwait while forward deployed in support of Operation enduring Freedom.
    USMC / SSgt Daniel Schrubb
  • An assault Marine with Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Bn., 8th Marines, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (26th MEU), fires an AT-4 anti-tank rocket during a live fire training on a range at Udairi Range, Kuwait.
    US Navy / Sgt. Roman Yurek
  • Marines from Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Bn., 8th Marines, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), sight in down range with their M249 squad automatic weapons at Udairi Range, Kuwait.
    US Navy / Sgt. Roman Yurek
  • Marines from Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Bn., 8th Marines, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), fire a battle sight zero range at Udairi Range, Kuwait, during routine proficiency training.
    US Navy / Sgt. Roman Yurek
  • Marines from 1st Squad, 2nd Platoon, Golf Company, conduct room clearing training. Marines from Golf Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Bn, 8th Marines, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) conducted live fire exercises.
    US Navy / Lance Cpl Daniel R Lowndes
  • U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman David M. Crittenden, the corpsman for 3rd Platoon, Golf Company, 2nd Bn., 8th Marines, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), fires an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon.
    US Navy / Lance Cpl. Daniel R. Lowndes
  • With the dock landing ship USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) trailing closely behind, infantrymen from Battalion Landing Team 1st Bn., 2nd Marines, provide security.
    US Navy / Gunnery Sgt. Keith A. Milks
  • File:US Navy 040602-M-8096M-016 U.S. Marines assigned to Battalion Landing Team 1st Bn., 6th Marines wait for the word to move toward a mountain.jpg
    Public Domain / BotMultichillT
photo: USMC / Sgt. Matthew Troyer
Sahara launches JV with US based Turner Construction for projects worth $25 bn
The Times of India
09 Feb 2012
MUMBAI: The Sahara Group on Thursday sewed up a joint venture with US-based Turner Construction and a private equity firm Acropolis Capital to undertake USD 25 billion worth projects of Sahara Prime...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
Snow melting on the mountains is seen on the way to the Amarnath Pilgrimage, one of the most revered of Hindu shrines on July 01, 2011. near Baltal, Jammu and Kashmir, India. More than 5,000 Hindu devotees, braving sub-zero temperatures, began the hike over glaciers and along paths overhanging gorges to reach the sacred Amarnath cave housing an ice stalagmite, a stylized phallus worshiped by Hindus as a symbol of the god Shiva, enveloped by the rugged Himalayan mountains. The Kashmiri mountains near Srinagar are 3,800 metres above sea level and are home to an ice stalagmite resembling the Hindu god Shiva. About 200,000 Hindu pilgrims are expected to take part in this year's two-month pilgrimage, during which large numbers of Indian paramilitary soldiers and policemen are being deployed along the route as protection from attacks by militants who have been fighting for independence of Kashmir since 1989. Experts of the Indian National Geophysical Research Institute say rising temperatures and the activities of the pilgrims, such as burning wood and using diesel generators have put a lot of pressure on the ecosystem of the area.
Zeenews
09 Feb 2012
London: Greenland, Antarctica and global glaciers and ice caps lost roughly 8 times the volume of Lake Erie from 2003-2010, a new study has revealed. According to the study led by the University of...
photo: WN / Priya Dashini
A netbook using the Microsoft software.
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Railroad nameBNSF Railway
Logo filenameBNSF Railway logo.png
Logo size174
System mapBNSF Railway system map.svg
Map size300
Map captionSystem map (trackage rights in purple)
MarksBNSF
Local eMidwest and Western United States
Start year1996
End year''present''
Length at end of 2008 0.01% from 2007
Hq cityFort Worth, Texas
Websitehttp://www.bnsf.com }}
The BNSF Railway is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. It is one of seven North American Class I transcontinental railroads and the second largest freight railroad network in North America, second only to the Union Pacific Railroad, its primary competitor for Western U.S. freight.

It was formed December 31, 1996, as the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (often called the "Santa Fe") was merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad. In 1999, BNSF and the Canadian National Railway announced their intention to merge and form a new corporation entitled the North American Railways to be headquartered in Montreal, Canada. The United States' Surface Transportation Board (STB) placed a fifteen-month moratorium on all rail mergers, which ended this merger. On January 24, 2005, the railroad's name was officially changed to "BNSF Railway," using the initials of its original name.

BNSF Railway is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, the holding company formed by the September 22, 1995, merger of Burlington Northern, Incorporated, and the Santa Fe Pacific Corporation. According to corporate press releases, the BNSF Railway is among the top transporters of intermodal freight in North America. It also hauls enough coal to generate roughly ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States. The company's three transcontinental routes provide a high-speed link between the western and eastern United States.

On November 3, 2009, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announced that it would acquire the remaining 77.4 percent of BNSF that it didn't already own for $100 per share in cash and stock - a deal valued at $44 billion. The company is investing an estimated $34 billion in BNSF and acquiring $10 billion in debt. On February 12, 2010, shareholders of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation voted in favor of the acquisition.

Operations

Markets and services

With BNSF's large system, it hauls many different commodities, most notably coal and grain, as well as intermodal freight.

Predecessor Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) entered Wyoming's low-sulfur coal-rich Powder River Basin in the 1970s through construction of the Powder River Basin Joint Line with Union Pacific Railroad predecessor Chicago and North Western Transportation Company. Coal goes north in unit trains on the three-to-four-track Joint Line to Gillette or south to Orin, where older BN lines and other railroads take it in all directions to coal-burning power plants.

BNSF serves over 1,500 grain elevators, located mostly in the Midwest on former BN lines. Depending on where the markets are, this grain may move in any direction in unit trains, or wait in silos for demand to rise. Most commonly, grain may move west on the Northern Transcon to the Pacific Northwest and its export terminals, or south to Texas and Gulf of Mexico ports.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's main contribution to BNSF was the Southern Transcon, a fast intermodal corridor connecting Southern California and Chicago. Most traffic is either trailers of trucking companies such as intermodal partner J. B. Hunt, or containers from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. The latter begins its trip on the triple-track Alameda Corridor, shared with the Union Pacific Railroad, and then follows BNSF rails from downtown Los Angeles. Its route, the Southern Transcon, has been almost completely double-tracked, and triple-tracking has begun in areas such as Cajon Pass.

Finances

NameBNSF Railway Company
FoundationDecember 31, 1996 in Delaware as Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
Num employees38,000+
Revenue$18,132,372,000 14%
Operating income$3,823,703,000 12%
Net income$2,397,016,000 17%
Assets$35,702,439,000 8%
Equity$18,111,029,000 5%
ParentBurlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation
Key peopleMatthew K. Rose (chairman, president, and CEO) }}

Trackage

The BNSF Railway directly owns and operates track in 27 U.S. states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The railway also operates a small amount of track in Canada, including an approximate 30-mile (48 kilometer) section that runs from the U.S.-Canada border to Vancouver, a yard in Winnipeg, and approximately 70 miles of joint track with the Canadian National Railway, which runs south to the U.S. border.

For administrative purposes, BNSF is divided into fourteen operating divisions: California, Chicago, Colorado, Gulf, Kansas, Los Angeles, Montana, Nebraska, Northwest, Powder River, Southwest, Springfield, Texas, and Twin Cities. Each division is further divided into hundreds of subdivisions, which represent segments of track ranging from 300-mile mainlines to 10-mile branch-lines.

Not including second, third and fourth main-line trackage, yard trackage, and siding trackage, BNSF directly owns and operates over 24,000 miles (38,624 kilometers) of track. When these additional tracks are counted, the length of track which the railway directly controls rises to more than 50,000 miles (80,467 kilometers).

Additionally, BNSF Railway has gained trackage rights on more than 8,000 miles (12,875 kilometers) of track throughout the United States and Canada. These rights allow the BNSF to operate its own trains with its own crews on competing railroads' main tracks. BNSF locomotives also occasionally show up on competitors' tracks throughout the United States and Canada by way of leases, mileage equalizations, and other contractual arrangements.

Yards and facilities

BNSF operates various facilities all over the United States to support its transportation system. Facilities operated by the railway include yards and terminals throughout its rail network, system locomotive shops to perform locomotive service and maintenance, a centralized operations center for train dispatching and network operations monitoring in Fort Worth, and regional dispatching centers.

BNSF Railway also operates numerous transfer facilities throughout the western United States to facilitate the transfer of intermodal containers, trailers, and other freight traffic. BNSF Railway has direct control over a total of 33 intermodal hubs and 23 automotive distribution facilities. On February 9, 2005, BNSF announced that it plans to build a new intermodal transfer facility near the port of Los Angeles called the Southern California International Gateway. The new facility, with direct rail access to the recently constructed Alameda Corridor, would supplement the container transloading abilities of the Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF) built by Southern Pacific in the 1990s.

Large freight car hump yards are also scattered throughout the BNSF system. In 2005, Argentine Yard in Kansas City, Kansas processed the most freight cars. Further on, there is a list of currently operating BNSF Hump Yards.

The BNSF mechanical division operates eight locomotive maintenance facilities that perform preventive maintenance, repairs and servicing of equipment. The largest of these facilities are located in Alliance, Nebraska and Topeka, Kansas. The mechanical division also controls 46 additional facilities responsible for car maintenance and daily running repairs.

The BNSF system mechanical division, a subset of the mechanical division, operates two maintenance-of-way work equipment shops, responsible for performing repairs and preventive maintenance to BNSF's track and equipment, in Brainerd, Minnesota and Galesburg, Illinois. The system mechanical division also operates the Western Fruit Express Company's refrigerated car repair shop in Spokane, Washington.

In 2006, BNSF teamed with Vancouver, WA-based Tri Star to run BNSF's new transload facility in Fontana, CA, near the California Speedway.

BNSF operates hump yards in several cities:

  • Barstow, California - Barstow Yard
  • Galesburg, Illinois - Galesburg Yard
  • Kansas City, Kansas - Argentine Yard
  • Memphis, Tennessee - Tennessee Yard
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota - Northtown Yard
  • Pasco, Washington - Pasco Yard
  • Seattle, Washington - Balmer Yard
  • Tulsa, Oklahoma - Cherokee Yard
  • Lincoln, Nebraska - Hobson Yard
  • Routes

  • The Northern Transcon runs from Seattle to Chicago. It is the most northerly route of any railroad in the continental United States. The route is a combination of parts of the old Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway.
  • The Southern Transcon runs from Los Angeles to Chicago. The 2006 ''BNSF Annual Report'' states: "We also added about 33 miles of second main track on our main line between Chicago and Los Angeles. All but 51 miles of this high-volume 2,200-mile route were double track, as of the end of 2006. Last year, we ran 100 trains per day on this expanded main line, compared with 60 per day in 2000." Technically, it is not double tracked in mid-Kansas where two routes are used: Mulvane to Wichita to Newton to Emporia for primarily eastbound traffic; Emporia to El Dorado to Augusta to Mulvane for primarily westbound traffic. In 2008, BNSF completed nearly sixteen miles of a third main track through Cajon Pass in Southern California, increasing capacity on the transcontinental main route between Chicago and Los Angeles from 100 to 150 trains per day. BNSF started adding a second main track in Abo Canyon (east of Belen, New Mexico) the largest bottleneck on the Transcon with grading in 2008-2009, bridges in 2010 and signal work in late 2010 or early 2011. Approximately 1.7 million cubic yards of rock need to be excavated, mostly by blasting. The 2008 ''BNSF Annual Report'' states: "Following completion of the Abo Canyon project scheduled in 2011, our 2,200‑mile Transcontinental Corridor between Southern California and Chicago will have only about 30 miles of single track."
  • The Powder River Basin supplies forty percent of the coal in the United States. The 2008 ''BNSF Annual Report'' states that the quadruple track project was completed.
  • Operating divisions

    The BNSF system is divided into thirteen divisions, which are grouped into three regions. Each division includes numerous subdivisions, normally comprising a single main line and branches. A fourteenth division, Colorado, has been consolidated with the Powder River Division, except for the Casper and Cody Subdivisions, which were transferred to the Montana Division. {|class="wikitable sortable" !Region !Division !States and provinces !Headquarters !Subdivisions !Notes |- |South |California |California, Nevada, Utah |San Bernardino, CA |Bakersfield, Cajon, Lucerne Valley, Mojave, Needles, San Bernardino, San Diego, Stockton | |- |South |Chicago |Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin |Chicago, IL |Aurora, Barstow, Brookfield, Chicago, Chillicothe, Marceline, Mendota, Ottumwa, Peoria, St. Croix, Thomas Hill | |- |Central |Gulf |Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas |Spring, TX |Bay City, Conroe, Galveston, Houston, Lafayette, Lampasas, Longview, Mykawa, Silsbee | |- |South |Kansas |Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas |Kansas City, KS |Arkansas City, Douglass, Emporia, Hereford, La Junta, Panhandle, Plainview, Slaton, Strong City, Topeka | |- |South |Los Angeles |California |Los Angeles, CA |Alameda Corridor, Harbor, San Bernardino | |- |North |Montana |Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming |Billings, MT |Big Sandy, Broadview, Casper, Choteau, Circle, Cody, Colstrip, Crosby, Dickinson, Fairfield, Forsyth, Ft. Benton, Glasgow, Great Falls, Grenora, Helena, Hettinger, Hi Line, Kootenai River, Laurel, Lewistown, Milk River, Mobridge, Niobe, Sarpy Line, Sweet Grass, Valier | |- |Central |Nebraska |Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska |Lincoln, NE |Bayard, Beatrice, Bellwood, Council Bluffs, Creston, Des Moines, Giltner, Hastings, Lester, Napier, Neb City, Omaha, Ottumwa, Ravenna, Sioux City, St. Joseph, Wymore | |- |North |Northwest |British Columbia, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington |Seattle, WA |Bellingham, Burbank, Cherry Point, Coeur d'Alene, Columbia River, Fallbridge, Gateway, Kettle Falls, Lakeside, Newport, New Westminster, Oregon Trunk, Scenic, Seattle, Spokane, Stampede, Sumas, Yakima Valley | |- |Central |Powder River |Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming |Gillette, WY |Akron, Angora, Big Horn, Black Hills, Boise City, Brush, Butte, Campbell, Canyon, Dalhart, Dutch, Front Range, Golden, Orin, Pikes Peak, Pueblo, Reno, Sand Hills, Spanish Peaks, Twin Peaks, Valley | |- |South |Southwest |Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas |Belen, NM |Clovis, Coronado, Defiance, El Paso, Ennis, Gallup, Glorieta, Lee Ranch, Phoenix, Raton, Seligman, Springerville | |- |Central |Springfield |Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee |Springfield, MO |Afton, Amory, Avard, Beardstown, Birmingham, Cherokee, Cuba, Fort Scott, Hannibal, Lead Line, River, Thayer North, Thayer South, Yates City |Includes most of the former St. Louis-San Francisco Railway |- |Central |Texas |Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas |Alliance, TX |BBRX, Chickasha, Creek, DFW, Ft. Worth, Madill, Red River Valley, Red Rock, Sooner, Venus, Wichita Falls | |- |North |Twin Cities |Iowa, Manitoba, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin |Minneapolis, MN |Aberdeen, Allouez, Appleton, Brainerd, Browns Valley, Canton, Casco, Clifford Line, Corson, Devils Lake, Drayton, Glasston, Grand Forks, Hanley Falls, Hannah, Hib Tac, Hillsboro, Hinckley, Hunter, Jamestown, KO, Lakes, Madison, Marshall, Mayville, Midway, Mitchell, Monticello, Moorhead, Morris, Noyes, P Line, Prosper, Rolla, Staples, St. Paul, Warwick, Watertown, Wayzata, Westhope, Zap Line | |}

    Passenger train service

    The BNSF Railway hosts commuter trains: BNSF Railway Line, Metrolink (Southern California), New Mexico Rail Runner Express, Northstar Commuter Rail, and Sounder (Puget Sound).

    Many Amtrak routes use BNSF rails: the ''Amtrak Cascades'', ''California Zephyr'', ''Carl Sandburg'', ''Coast Starlight'', ''Empire Builder'', ''Heartland Flyer'', ''Illinois Zephyr'', ''Lincoln Service'', ''Pacific Surfliner'', ''San Joaquin'', ''Southwest Chief'', ''Sunset Limited'', and ''Texas Eagle''.

    Safety

    As one of the leading supporters of the Operation Lifesaver program to promote safety at railway crossings and right-of-ways, the BNSF Railway, in 2000, established a grade-crossing closure program. This program, in which BNSF works with communities and landowners to identify crossings that are unnecessary or redundant, has helped close more than 2,900 of BNSF's railway crossings throughout the United States. Due to the program, BNSF has been the industry leader in lowering the number of grade-crossing collisions.

    On June 7, 2006, BNSF became the first Class I railroad to recruit railfans to help ensure the company's rail network remains safe. Called the Citizens for Rail Security (CRS), BNSF designed a program that encourages railfans to register on an official company website. They can print out a small identification card, containing a list of general safety guidelines for a railfan to follow, as well as a toll-free telephone number to alert a BNSF representative of suspicious activities or potential security breaches. As of April 2010, CRS had more than 9,200 members.

    BNSF has had a similar program for employees since 2003. The BNSF On Guard program has been highly successful, with more than 200 employees reporting suspicious activities since its inception.

    BNSF also contracts with [News Link], a small business in Lincoln, Nebraska, to publish employee newsletters focused on safety for each of the railroad's fourteen operating divisions and nearly all of its system shops. These newsletters vary in length from four to twenty-eight pages, published ranging from monthly to quarterly.

    Equipment

    According to the 2007 ''BNSF Annual Report'', at the end of 2007 the railway had more than 40,000 employees; 6,400 locomotives; and 85,338 freight cars.
  • Broken down by specific kind of car, the BNSF owned:
  • * 36,439 covered hoppers
  • * 13,690 gondolas
  • * 11,428 open hoppers
  • * 10,470 flatcars
  • * 7,948 boxcars
  • * 4,196 refrigerated "reefer" cars
  • * 427 tank cars
  • * 416 automobile carriers
  • * 324 "other" types of cars
  • In addition, the railway also owned:
  • * 3,253 domestic containers
  • * 11,714 domestic chassis
  • * 4,070 company service vehicles
  • * 1,200 trailers
  • * 163 commuter passenger cars
  • At the end of 2007, the average age (from date of manufacture) was fifteen years for the BNSF's locomotive fleet and fourteen years for the freight car fleet.

    On January 24, 2006, BNSF announced a $2.4 billion program of infrastructure upgrades for 2006. The upgrade program includes: double- and triple-tracking of track and a second mainline track through New Mexico's Abo Canyon on the former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway transcontinental line; expanding the Lincoln, Nebraska, classification yard and double- and triple-tracking of track in Wyoming's Powder River Basin region; expansions at eight of the railroad's larger intermodal facilities, and extending many sidings and expanding and improving refueling facilities. In making the announcement, BNSF chairman Matthew K. Rose cited improvements in the company's return on invested capital, and expressed hope for continued improvement. In March, 2008, the railroad was completing the triple-tracking of Cajon Pass in California, creating four tracks through the pass—three BNSF (former Santa Fe and newly installed) and one Union Pacific (former Southern Pacific).

    History

    BNSF's history dates back to 1849, when the Aurora Branch Railroad in Illinois and the Pacific Railroad of Missouri were formed. The Aurora Branch eventually grew into the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, (CB&Q;), a major component of predecessor Burlington Northern. A portion of the Pacific Railroad became the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco).

    The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) was chartered in 1859. It built one of the first transcontinental railroads in North America, linking Chicago and Southern California; major branches led to Texas, Denver, and San Francisco. The Interstate Commerce Commission denied a proposed merger with the Southern Pacific Transportation Company in the 1980s.

    The Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) was created in 1970 through the consolidation of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, the Great Northern Railway, the Northern Pacific Railway and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway. It absorbed the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco) in 1980. Its main lines included Chicago-Seattle with branches to Texas (ex-Burlington) and Montgomery, Alabama (ex-Frisco), and access to the low-sulfur coal of Wyoming's Powder River Basin.

    On June 30, 1994, BN and ATSF announced plans to merge; they were the largest and smallest (by mileage) of the "Super Seven," the seven largest of the then-twelve U.S. Class I railroads. The long-rumored announcement was delayed by a disagreement over the disposition of Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation, a gold mining subsidiary that ATSF agreed to sell to stockholders. This announcement began the next wave of mergers, as the "Super Seven" were merged down to four in the next five years. The Illinois Central Railroad and Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS), two of the five "small" Class Is, announced on July 19 that the former would buy the latter, but this plan was called off on October 25. The Union Pacific Railroad (UP), another major Western system, started a bidding war with BN for control of the SF on October 5. The UP gave up on January 31, 1995, paving the way for the BN-ATSF merger. Subsequently, the UP acquired the Southern Pacific Transportation Company (SP) in 1996, and Eastern systems CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway split the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) in 1998-1999.

    On February 7, 1995, BN and ATSF heads Gerald Grinstein and Robert D. Krebs both announced that shareholders had approved the plan, which would save overhead costs and combine BN's coal and ATSF's intermodal strengths. Although the two systems complemented each other with little overlap, in contrast to the Santa Fe-Southern Pacific merger, which failed because it would have eliminated competition in many areas of the Southwest, BN and ATSF came to agreements with most other Class Is to keep them from opposing the merger. UP was satisfied with a single segment of trackage rights from Abilene, Kansas to Superior, Nebraska, which BN and ATSF had both served. KCS gained haulage rights to several Midwest locations including Omaha, East St. Louis, and Memphis, in exchange for BNSF getting similar access to New Orleans. SP, initially requesting far-reaching trackage rights throughout the West, soon agreed on a reduced plan, whereby SP acquired trackage rights on ATSF for intermodal and automotive traffic to Chicago, and other trackage rights on ATSF in Kansas, south to Texas, and between Colorado and Texas. In exchange, SP assigned BNSF trackage rights over the ex-Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad between El Paso and Topeka and haulage rights to the Mexican border at Eagle Pass, Texas. Regional Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway also obtained trackage rights over BN from Peoria to Galesburg, Illinois, a BN hub where it could interchange with SP (which had rights on BN dating from 1990). The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) approved the BNSF merger on July 20, 1995 (with final approval on August 23), less than a month before UP announced on August 3 that it would acquire SP. Parents Burlington Northern Inc. and Santa Fe Pacific Corporation were acquired on September 22, 1995 by the new Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation. The merger of the operating companies was held up by issues with unions; ATSF merged on December 31, 1996 into BN, which was renamed The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company. Thus the present BNSF Railway Company (name adopted January 24, 2005) dates back to the January 13, 1961 incorporation in Delaware of BN as "Great Northern Pacific & Burlington Lines, Inc."

    The Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger further enlarged the combined BNSF network. Unlike BN and ATSF, UP and SP had significant overlap, where competition between the two would become a monopoly. UP and BNSF announced in late September 1995 that, in exchange for BNSF not opposing the merger, it would obtain ownership of of line and about of trackage rights to reach these "two-to-one" shippers. Significant additions included rights over SP's Central Corridor from Denver via the Moffat Tunnel and Salt Lake City, and over Donner Pass, to the San Francisco Bay Area, with an alternate route through the Feather River Canyon along UP. The ATSF trackage in California's Central Valley was linked to BN's line into Oregon, through trackage rights over UP between Stockton and Keddie and acquisition of UP's section of the "Inside Gateway" to the beginning of BN trackage at Bieber. In Texas, BNSF received rights in several directions from the Houston area: west over UP to San Antonio, with a branch to Waco, and continuing over SP to Eagle Pass (replacing the haulage rights they had just obtained); south over UP to Brownsville; east over SP to New Orleans (including the purchase of this line east of Lake Charles); and northeast over SP to Memphis with a branch on UP to Little Rock. Ownership of a short connection between Waxahachie and Dallas also went from UP to BNSF. UP, in return, got a few short sections of trackage rights over BNSF, mainly connecting the SP at Chemult to the UP at Bend, Oregon, and connecting the SP at Mojave with existing UP rights on ATSF at Barstow, California. On April 18, 1996, UP, BNSF, and the Chemical Manufacturers Association entered into an agreement giving BNSF rights over the UP line between Houston and East St. Louis, paralleling the Houston-Memphis SP line, and allowing BNSF to participate in the UP's plan for directional running, in which each line would serve through trains in only one direction. The Surface Transportation Board, successor to the ICC, approved the UP-SP merger on July 3, and UP control of SP took effect on September 11, 1996. BNSF trackage rights operations began on the Central Corridor on October 10, and soon thereafter on other lines.

    BNSF continued projects started by its predecessors, most notably BN's work on reopening Stampede Pass. BN had closed Stampede Pass, the Northern Pacific Railway's main line across Washington, in 1984, in favor of the ex-Great Northern Railway's Stevens Pass. BN never abandoned the line and began rehabilitating it in early 1996, and the route reopened in early December, relieving the crowded Stevens Pass. The ex-ATSF main line, now known as the Southern Transcon, has also seen steady work to add tracks, giving BNSF more capacity on this major intermodal route.

    On December 20, 1999, BNSF and the recently privatized Canadian National Railway announced plans (STB Finance Docket No. 33842) to combine as subsidiaries of a new holding company, North American Railways, which would control about of railroad. With CN's lines located primarily in Canada and, through subsidiary Illinois Central Railroad, on a north-south corridor near BNSF's eastern edge, the two systems had little overlap. The combination would benefit both companies by expanding available cash for capacity improvements, and allowing for longer single-system movements. Shippers and the Surface Transportation Board expressed concern and surprise about the timing, since the merger that produced BNSF had been the only one in the 1990s that did not cause severe deterioration in service. The STB imposed on March 17, 2000 a 15-month moratorium (STB Ex Parte No. 582) on mergers involving any two Class I railroads, citing widespread opposition not only to the merger but its effects, likely starting the final round of mergers into two big systems. BNSF and CN immediately turned to the U.S. Court of Appeals, which on July 14 ruled that the STB's right to regulate mergers allowed a moratorium, and the two railroads called off the merger. The STB released its final rules (STB Ex Parte No. 582 (Sub-No. 1)) on June 11, 2001, requiring any new application to merge two Class I railroads, with the exception of smaller Kansas City Southern Railway, to demonstrate that competition would be preserved and address effects of defensive moves by other carriers. Since then, no Class I mergers have taken place.

    On November 3, 2009, Warren Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway would buy BNSF for $44 billion. The acquisition was approved by the boards of both companies and was approved by BNSF shareholders on February 12, 2010.

    Public image

    The assortment of colors used on the BNSF makes it one of the most colorful large railroads in North America. Many locomotives are painted in "Heritage" schemes, which are primarily based on the Great Northern Railway's colors of orange and dark green. Other designs include the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's silver-and-red "Warbonnet", and a modified version of the "Heritage II" scheme with BNSF's new logo (adopted in 2005) and black rather than dark green. Some older units continue to bear the Grinstein Green and Crème of predecessor Burlington Northern Railroad or the Santa Fe's blue and yellow.

    The first locomotive to bear BNSF lettering was BN SD70MAC No. 9647, introduced in late August 1995, just as the Interstate Commerce Commission was approving the merger. VMV Paducahbilt in Paducah, Kentucky painted it in a one-of-a-kind "commemorative" scheme, combining ATSF's "Warbonnet" with BN's "Executive" colors of dark "Grinstein green" and cream (instead of SF's red and silver). "BNSF" replaced "SANTA FE" on the front of the unit, and "Burlington Northern Santa Fe" was painted on the side. Dubbed as "Premium Heritage," the paint scheme was widely rejected by the public, and was often called the "Vomit Bonnet."

    The BN however, did not stop using its "Executive" colors on its current order of EMD SD70MACs. Experimenting with distributed power equipment in 1995, four units (9713–9716) were built between June and July 1995; making these units numbered ahead of the current production order (9617-9645). On December 28, 1995, SD70MAC 9708 emerged from the EMD London, Ontario facility as the last unit for the Burlington Northern in 1995. However, units 9709 and 9710 were completed shortly thereafter and did not appear somewhere between January 1 and January 8. Originally believed that units 9711 and 9712 would emerge as BN 9711 and 9712 to fill in the gap between 9710 and 9713, these units were the very first locomotives to carry a short-lived font of "BNSF" along the carbodies, yet retaining the executive scheme without any major modifications. At that point, 9710 was now deemed as the very last new locomotive delivered to the Burlington Northern.

    By January 1996, BNSF had begun painting locomotives in the old BN and ATSF schemes but with "BNSF" on the side. Then, in late May, the company introduced a new design on BN SD60M 9297 (now 8197), painted mainly in BN predecessor Great Northern Railway's pre-1967 colors of orange and dark "Pullman green," but also incorporating red and silver, and said to represent all three major BN predecessors and the ATSF. On the front was a new logo, placing "Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway" in the old ATSF cross. Some of the striping details were different on each side, and employees voted for the simpler right-side design, which, with some minor changes, became the new scheme, replacing the old BN colors. However, president and CEO Robert Krebs said the railroad was big enough for two designs, and the ATSF "Warbonnet" (with "BNSF" instead of "Santa Fe" on the front) remained alongside the new "Heritage I" scheme. A third "Heritage II" scheme appeared by September 1998, with "Warbonnet"-style yellow trim and BNSF nosepiece replacing the new logo. As for test locomotive No. 9297 (now 8197), when a passing crew saw its prominent orange, it was jokingly dubbed the "Great Pumpkin," a name that has stuck among railfans for that particular unit.

    On January 24, 2005, as part of its tenth anniversary celebration, the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway was renamed BNSF Railway, which adopted a new logo. By March, the logo had been applied to the sides and fronts of six ES44DCs, which were otherwise painted in the "Heritage II" scheme, except with black replacing dark green. Slight differences were present on the six locomotives, and on April 11 BNSF officially chose the design it had applied to No. 7701. The most notable difference was on 7695, which features the logo in yellow rather than black. Other unique locomotives include Dash 9-44CW 4723, with stickers announcing its presence in Microsoft Train Simulator.

    See also

  • BNSF Police Department, the law enforcement agency responsible for policing BNSF trackage and property
  • References

  • BNSF Railway (January 24, 2005), BNSF Adopts New Corporate and Subsidiary Logos and Changes Name of Railway Subsidiary as Part of Tenth Anniversary Celebration. Retrieved January 25, 2005.
  • BNSF Railway (February 9, 2005), Port of Los Angeles begins discussions with BNSF Railway Company on new intermodal facility. Retrieved February 10, 2005.
  • External links

  • BNSF
  • Citizens for Rail Security
  • List and Family Trees of North American Railroads
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