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BNSF completes 'Chihuahuita Connection' at U.S.-Mexico border
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BNSF completes 'Chihuahuita Connection' at U.S.-Mexico border (The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on July 30, 2010.) BNSF Railway Co. recently completed the Chihuahuita Connection along the El Paso, Texas/Juarez, Mexico gateway. In conjunction with a planned gra...
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BNSF Railway raises diesel price to $2.50 a gallon
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BNSF Railway raises diesel price to $2.50 a gallon (The Associated Press circulated the following on July 26, 2010.) FORT WORTH, Texas The BNSF Railway Co. said Monday it's raising the diesel price at which it adds a surcharge to $2.50 per gallon for highway diesel fuel, up from $1.25 per gallon. BNSF...
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At Alliance Nebraska, a whole bunch of the early SD70MAC's came together as their lease is up. Rumor has them heading to Mexico...to what railroad is unknown. The video is either impressive or boring. Personally I wished I'd had taken it.
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BNSF pledges more fire safety
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BNSF pledges more fire safetySEATTLE - The wildfire season is upon us and the state's largest railroad has some new fire prevention rules in place, KING 5 reports. That's after the KING 5 Investigators revealed that railroads, mostly Burlington Northern Santa Fe, have sparked hundreds of wildfir...
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BNSF puts Montana biodiesel to the test
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BNSF puts Montana biodiesel to the test (The following story by Kim Skornogoski appeared on the Great Falls Tribune website on July 17, 2010.) GREAT FALLS, Mont. Every day, trains packed with Montana grains chug past Earl Fisher Biofuels. This morning, company officials will join BNSF representa...
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Jitney Driver Alert
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxirKQZrRvo Date: 07/16/10 16:44 BNSF on the ground at mp177, Gateway Sub. Author: DaveL A southbound train reported at 16:35 that 71 cars from the head end there is an empty tank (Haz-Mat) on the ground. (no truck under one end!). Everything is upright...... I wi...
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BNSF pulls out of grant process for proposed Willmar rail bypass
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BNSF pulls out of grant process for proposed Willmar rail bypass (The following story by Anne Polta appeared on the West Central Tribune website on July 14, 2010.) WILLMAR, Minn. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway has pulled out of the application process for federal stimulus money to help build...
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BNSF honors two who saved man stuck on tracks
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BNSF honors two who saved man stuck on tracksWhen Kachalle Young and Amber Kopaczewski saved a man from being hit by a train, they thought that was the end of it, the Olathe, Kan., News reports. But the two women stood in front of cameras and family on Friday morning in BNSF Railways Technical Training C...
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BNSF tracks open again after derailment near Bismarck (The following story by Christopher Bjorke appeared on the Bismarck Tribune website on July 12, 2010.) BISMARCK, N.D. Freight trains resumed rolling past Brian Ternes' house in the Apple Creek area early Monday morning following a derailmen...
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BNSF selling SD40-2's on e-bay
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Why the fuck not. Item specificsCondition: Used: An item that has been used previously. The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but is fully operational and functions as intended. This item may be a floor model or store return that has been used. See the sellers listing for full details and desc...
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2 indicted in BNSF false invoice scheme
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2 indicted in BNSF false invoice scheme (The Associated Press circulated the following on July 13, 2010.) ABERDEEN, Miss. Two Smithville men face a September trial on charges they defrauded the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that 47-year-...
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Grant sought to help Fort Worth railroads out of a jam
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Grant sought to help Fort Worth railroads out of a jam (The following story by Michael A. Lindenberger appeared on The Dallas Morning News website on July 8, 2010.) DALLAS, Texas Texas officials are asking the Obama administration to contribute nearly $60 million to help two of America's largest pr...
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Derailment, explosion on BNSF tracks in Mo. keeps fire crews busy
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Derailment, explosion on BNSF tracks in Mo. keeps fire crews busy (The following story by Meredith Hoenes appeared at Fox4KC.com on July 3, 2010.) SUGAR CREEK, Mo. A train derailed causing a rail car to explode in Sugar Creek Saturday morning. 17 cars derailed and six cars overturned around 1 a.m. On...
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BNSF spends $1.3M on 1Q lobbying
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BNSF spends $1.3M on 1Q lobbyingNEW YORK -- Railroad operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe spent $1.3 million lobbying the federal government in the first quarter, according to the Associated Press. That's down from about $1.5 million spent in the fourth quarter and $1.4 million in the first quar...
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BNSF to clean up pollution from 1963 derailment
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BNSF to clean up pollution from 1963 derailment (The following story by Tammy Sakry appeared on the Coon Rapids Herald website on June 24, 2010.) COON RAPIDS, Minn. In 1963, there was a train accident on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Rail line in what is now Ramsey and drums of powdered lead a...
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Rock slide buries part of BNSF train near Libby, Mont.
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Rock slide buries part of BNSF train near Libby, Mont. (The following story by Jo Dee Black appeared on the Great Falls Tribune website on June 24, 2010.) GREAT FALLS, Mont. A rock slide 30 miles east of Libby buried two BNSF Railway freight cars and derailed 14 others Wednesday morning, shutting down...
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BNSF appeals huge crossing-crash verdict
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BNSF appeals huge crossing-crash verdictWas the jury that awarded a record $21.6 million to the families of four young people killed in a 2003 train-car accident in Anoka properly instructed that federal railroad-safety regulations preempt state law? the Minneapolis Star Tribune asks. "...
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IBEW sec-treas. pleads guilty to embezzling
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IBEW sec-treas. pleads guilty to embezzlingA 70-year-old former financial secretary-treasurer of Local 1023 (Burlington Northern, Barstow, Calif.) of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers pleaded guilty June 21 to federal charges that he embezzled more than $90,000 in union...
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Buffett to dispose of non-BNSF rail holdings
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Buffett to dispose of non-BNSF rail holdingsBefore it completes its deal to buy out the rest of BNSF, Warren Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway will divest its shares of Union Pacific Railroad and Norfolk Southern Railway, reports John Boyd in the Journal of Commerce. BNSF Chairman Matt Rose made that st...
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Residents protest proposed BNSF rail yard air pollution plan
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Residents protest proposed BNSF rail yard air pollution plan (The following story by Wendy Leung appeared on the Redlands Daily Facts website on June 20, 2010.) REDLANDS, Calif. More than 100 residents from rail-adjacent communities protested at the Los Angeles home of the California Air Resour...
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BNSF employee appreciation train stops in Quincy
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BNSF employee appreciation train stops in QuincyQUINCY, Ill. -- Years ago railroad was the most popular way of transportation. Today, families experience the railroad in a unique way as they step foot into restored 1950's passenger cars, Web site www.connecttristates.com reports. The 2010 BNS...
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BNSF tries to cut emissions at Calif. yard
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BNSF tries to cut emissions at Calif. yardSAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - An agreement between air quality regulators and BNSF Railway promises to cut pollution at the company's Westside rail yard, but that's not enough for many who breathe the diesel fumes generated there, the Press Enterprise reports...
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Service denial by BNSF in question
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Service denial by BNSF in questionThe Surface Transportation Board (STB) will hold a public hearing on July 29 to determine whether BNSF Railway Co. can deny service to coal shippers who don't follow the railroad's coal dust dispersal rules, Progressive Railroading reported. Board members will...
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BNSF to replace Burlington bridge approach spans
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BNSF to replace Burlington bridge approach spans (BNSF Railway issued the following on June 10, 2010.) FORT WORTH, Texas BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) announced today it will begin work this month on replacing seven approach spans on the Mississippi River bridge at Burlington, Iowa. Construction...
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HOLY SHIT!.....I hope any remaining CF-7's are ok
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Date: 06/07/10 14:51 Explosion in Texas Author: etihparg Just reported a huge natural gas explosion in Cleburne, Texas. At least 3 dead and 10 missing. Didn't the Santa Fe have shops there, and if memory serves this is where the CF-7's came from. Does BNSF still have a facility there?
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