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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 ]
The engine led a BNSF locomotive and a dozen of BNSF's business-car fleet around the upper Midwest portion of BNSF's route. This brought the engine back to Chicago before heading north to North Dakota and Montana , then through Minneapolis into Iowa before the EAS concluded at Topeka Railroad Days. 261 ended the 1998 operating season after a ...
BNSF was the first railroad to order locomotive rebuilds with an order for 21 AC44C4Ms that were delivered in September 2015. [5] [6]These were followed shortly by Norfolk Southern's AC44C6M's, which were first delivered at the end of 2015, and rebuilt from their Dash 9-40C locomotives. [7]
The expansion was a source of traffic unprecedented in United States railroad history. In 1971, the first full year for the new railroad, trains carried 64,116 million revenue ton-miles of freight, by 1979 the total was 135,004 million. [6] Most of the increase was attributed to Powder River coal from Wyoming.
The last name change was to Burlington Northern Santa Fe (Manitoba) took place in 1999, following the merger of the BNSF Railway in 1996. There are currently seven employees: train crew having four, and maintenance of way having three. [citation needed]
December 30, 2013 – A southbound Union Pacific Railroad freight train collides with a BNSF train near Keithville, Louisiana, derailing three locomotives and one car on the UP train and two locomotives and 11 cars on the BNSF train. [26] December 30, 2013 – A westbound BNSF grain train derails near Casselton, North Dakota. The 45th car in ...
A BNSF locomotive pulls train cars past flooding in the Central Valley during a winter storm in Tulare County near Allensworth, California, on March 22, 2023. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via ...
The Southern Transcon is a main line of the BNSF Railway comprising 11 subdivisions between Southern California and Chicago, Illinois.Completed in its current alignment in 1908 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, when it opened the Belen Cutoff in New Mexico (going through eastern New Mexico, northwestern Texas, briefly part of western Oklahoma and to Kansas) and bypassed the steep ...