- The BNSF Railway Company is the principal operating subsidiary of parent company Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC.Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the railroad's parent company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.
- BNSF operates one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America, with 32,500 miles of rail across the western two-thirds of the United States.
The Burlington Northern Railroad (reporting mark BN) was a United States-based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. Burlington Northern operated between 1970 and 1996. First Published -2:04PM Metra trains are operating on alternate weekday and weekend schedules posted here, with no weekend service on the North Central Service, Southwest Service, Heritage Corridor and the Blue Island Branch of the Metra Electric Line.
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Most men who have really lived have had, in some shape, their great adventure. This railway is mine.”—James J. Hill“
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Others also found their great adventure with Great Northern—thousands of dedicated, loyal employees spent their working careers in service of the company.”—John Budd, president of the Great Northern Railway
Burlington Northern (BN) formed from the merger of four long-affiliated railways that shared James J. Hill and John Budd’s spirit of railroading as a great adventure. Still, the move required complex planning and implementation programs. Soon after “M-day,” the electric-power industry summoned BN to transport immense amounts of low-sulfur coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana across thousands of miles of BN rail lines. To cope with the unexpected but exiting demand, the company hired and trained thousands of workers to improve the railroad, increase its capacity with a much larger fleet of coal-hauling cars and locomotives, construct new lines, build new sidings, add miles of double track, and upgrade thousands of miles of existing track to meet higher standards. In just a few years, BN lines were handling the highest tonnages of any railroad lines in the world—past or present. Burlington Northern: A Great Adventure, 1970–1979, the first in a two-volume series, covers this important decade.
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Earl J. Currie spent forty years in line management of operations and maintenance in the rail industry, including as BN’s Senior Vice President–Maintenance and Transportation.
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