BNSF Announces 2018 Plan for Capital Investments

Today, BNSF announced its 2018 capital investment plan of $3.3 billion. This year’s capital plan reflects BNSF’s continued focus on maintaining its network as well as expansion projects aimed at meeting customer demands. “Every year we work to ensure our capital investment plan enables us to continue to operate a safe and reliable rail network

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BNSF Partners with the Port of Portland to Assist Shippers

Shippers now have a new option for getting their products to market.  Thanks to a partnership between BNSF Railway and the Port of Portland, a new service will move containers between Portland and Seattle/Tacoma where they can be loaded onto container ships. As a leader in the intermodal industry, this new service will help companies throughout

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BNSF Police Keep Our Rails and Communities Safe

Imagine a community that is 32,500 miles long and only 100 feet wide.  That is the BNSF community crisscrossing hundreds of local and state jurisdictions throughout the Western part of the country.  Helping to patrol our community is the nearly 200 commissioned police officers and some K-9 friends who make up the BNSF Police Team, which is

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BNSF Renovates their Network Operations Center

BNSF has long been known as a quick adopter of new technologies. In 1995, BNSF created a Network Operations Center at their headquarters. Home to over 150 dispatches and other support staff, operations center recently completed a total renovation. With an operating floor the size of a football field, this facility handles 500 train starts

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Keeping Our Locomotive History Alive

Locomotive train history has always been an important part of the history of the Pacific Northwest. Out of the nearly 2,800 Shay steam locomotives built between 1878 and 1945, only 116 still exist and less than 15% are operational. The Oregon Historical Society has been operating excursions on Shay steam locomotives since 1994.  This year, BNSF

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BNSF Railway Foundations Donates $10,000 to Suquamish Tribal Council

The BNSF Railway Foundation gave a grant of $10,000 to the Suquamish Tribal Council for their Tribal Child Welfare department.  These funds will be used to purchase tablets and laptops for children in the program. Tribal Child Welfare supports families with native children living on the Port Madison Indian Reservation by providing child welfare family support

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Severe Weather Conditions Keep BNSF Busy

Even in the harshest winter conditions, BNSF is hard at work ensuring our customers don’t experience delays. Click above to learn of all the ways BNSF is working to beat extreme weather.

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