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BNSF Railway (reporting mark BNSF) is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, [1] 33,400 miles (53,800 km) of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. [2]
All of Burlington Northern, Inc's non-rail operations were spun off to a new company, Burlington Resources in 1988. The railroad once again relocated its headquarters in 1988, moving from Seattle to Fort Worth, Texas.
The BNSF Police Department or the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Police Department (BNSFPD) is a private railroad police department and the law enforcement agency of the BNSF Railway, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. [1]
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The railroad's tangible assets became part of the Fort Worth and Denver and Rock Island railroads in 1965 and the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad was no more. Rock Island went out of business on March 31, 1980, leaving the Fort Worth and Denver in sole control; it in turn merged into the Burlington Northern system on December 31, 1982.
Fort Worth Belt Railway: FWB MP: 1903 1978 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Fort Worth and Denver Railway: FW&D, FWD CB&Q: 1951 1982 Burlington Northern Railroad: Fort Worth and Denver City Railway: FW&D CB&Q: 1873 1951 Fort Worth and Denver Railway: Fort Worth and Denver Northern Railway: CB&Q: 1929 1952 Fort Worth and Denver Railway: Fort Worth and ...
The Fort Worth and Denver Railway's corporate existence came to an end when it was formally merged into Burlington Northern Railroad on December 31, 1982. [ 6 ] The FW&D's former main line through the Texas Panhandle and North Texas is now a heavily used route of BN's successor, the BNSF Railway , primarily for coal and intermodal trains ...
This luxurious train, a streamliner from 1947, ran from St. Louis to Dallas, Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, and San Antonio, Texas. The Frisco merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad on November 21, 1980. [2] The city of Frisco, Texas, was named after the railroad and uses the former railroad's logo as its own logo.