BNSF Helps Customers Reduce Carbon Emissions

Posted on July 3, 2018

BNSF customers significantly decrease their carbon footprint by converting their shipments from trucks to trains. A single double-stack intermodal train removes several hundred long-haul freight trucks from the highway. In fact, no other form of land freight transportation is by its very nature more fuel- and resource-efficient than rail. Rail also provides tremendous benefits by…

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BNSF is Supporting Local Communities this Summer

Posted on July 3, 2018

$10,000 donation to the Seattle Parks Foundation to help with Duwamish Waterway Park. $5,000 donation to the Spokane Public Library Foundation for its 24/7 Remote Access Library program. $3,500 donation to the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho St Vincent De Paul Savage Bureau for its Life and Social Skills Programming Support program.

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Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Gives BNSF Valuable Insight

Posted on July 3, 2018

BNSF continues to break ground in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – or drones – in the rail industry. We are becoming more involved in edge machine processing through which algorithms process data collected via drones in the field and then transfer it back to headquarters. In addition, camera systems installed on UAVs…

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