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Jury rejects multi-million lawsuit against BNSF
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Jury rejects multi-million lawsuit against BNSFCALDWELL, Texas A jury has rejected a man's nearly $50 million lawsuit claiming he got cancer from exposure to chemicals while working at a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway plant, the Associated Press reports. Burleson County jurors on Thursd...
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BNSF pays witnesses to testify in train deaths
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BNSF pays witnesses to testify in train deathsMINNEAPOLIS - Six years after a horrific train-car accident that killed four young adults in Anoka, four new witnesses have emerged. Two were paid thousands of dollars by an attorney to help the railroad in its bid to fight a $24 million wrongful-death v...
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BNSF CEO: US at bottom, recovery likely slow
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BNSF CEO: US at bottom, recovery likely slow (Reuters circulated the following story by Nick Carey on June 15, 2009.) DETROIT The pace of economic decline in the United States appears to have slowed but there are few indications that a recovery will be anything but a long, drawn out affair, the top exe...
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U.S. needs national freight policy, BNSF's says
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U.S. needs national freight policy, BNSF's saysThe biggest challenge to an efficient U.S. freight system? The lack of a national freight policy, said BNSF Railway Co. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Matt Rose, who testified last week at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the...
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Holy Iron Blunder!
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Trains collide in Tacoma yard; 1 injuryTACOMA, Wash. -- Two slow-moving freight trains collided Monday night (June 15) in a switching yard, injuring one engineer, derailing a locomotive and damaging some containers, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe spokesman told the Associated Press. About 1,5...
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BN closing sleeping rooms, removing asbestos
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BN closing sleeping rooms, removing asbestosLAUREL, Mont. - The four Burlington Northern Sante Fe (BNSF) buildings on the 300 block of East Main Street containing sleeping rooms for employees are scheduled for demolition later this summer, the Laurel Outlook reports. According to a photograph...
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BNSF furloughs 100 in Nebraska
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BNSF furloughs 100 in NebraskaALLIANCE, Neb. More than 100 employees of the BNSF mechanical department in the western Nebraska city of Alliance have been furloughed because of a decrease in rail traffic, the Associated Press reports. BNSF spokesman Steve Forsberg says workers were told of the fu...
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BNSF's conduct questioned in court
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BNSF's conduct questioned in courtMINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - It's been almost six years since one of the deadliest train-car collisions in Minnesota history took place in the city of Anoka, the KARE11.com Web site reports. And it's been almost one year since a jury found the railroad largely to blame for...
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Thumbs Up
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BNSF kicks in $20,000 for fireworks showFORT VANCOUVER, Wash. - BNSF Railway is chipping in $20,000 to bring a July 4 fireworks show back to Fort Vancouver in 2010, the Columbian reports. This year's show was canceled after the Fort Vancouver National Trust, which has presented the daylong music-f...
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Court puts limits on liability in toxic spill
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Court puts limits on liability in toxic spillSupreme Court says Shell not responsible for contaminated site cleanup costsOn Monday May 4, 2009, 8:46 pm EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court says Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated Superfund site owned by a defu...
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Whitefish residents hire lawyer to test for contamination from railyard
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Whitefish residents hire lawyer to test for contamination from railyard (The following story by Michael Jamison appeared on the Missoulian website on May 4,2 009.) WHITEFISH, Mont. A high-profile trial lawyer from Billings will arrive in Whitefish on Monday, with a plan for detecting suspected...
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BNSF train crew tip leads to pot bust
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BNSF train crew tip leads to pot bustFORT MORGAN, Colo. -- A Milwaukee, Wis., man is in the Morgan County Jail and more than 120 pounds of marijuana was seized Saturday thanks to alert Burlington Northern/Santa Fe Railroad employees, the Fort Morgan Times reported. A passing BNSF train crew reporte...
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UTU members worry about Minn. train staffing
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UTU members worry about Minn. train staffingMINNEAPOLIS - Duluthian Kay Rieck said she supports the concept of the Northern Lights Express train from Duluth to Minneapolis, but attended a public forum Wednesday seeking answers to many questions, according to the Minnepolis News Tribune. Rieck...
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BNSF eyes route to electric trains (The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on April 13, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Converting the freight rail system to electric trains from todays all-diesel operations might seem like a far-off notion, but BNSF Railway Matth...
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Wayside horns tested at BNSF tracks in Fort Collins, Colo.
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Wayside horns tested at BNSF tracks in Fort Collins, Colo. (The following story by Douglas Crowl appeared on the Loveland Connection website on April 29, 2009.) FORT COLLINS, Colo. They handed out earplugs, but it didnt seem necessary Tuesday in Loveland as a Texas engineering firm demonstrated h...
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Second Somerville suit against BNSF begins
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Second Somerville suit against BNSF beginsSOMERVILLE, Texas -- Same song, slightly different dance in Somerville, as a second lawsuit against the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company gets underway, television station KBTX reports. Jury selection in Dennis Davis' suit begins Monday m...
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Be frightened.....be very, very frightened
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Montana residents worry about BNSF offersWHITEFISH, Mont. - The Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad company has been quietly knocking on doors in a trendy Whitefish neighborhood, offering to buy homes and businesses that aren't for sale, while hinting that the ground beneath might be contami...
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BNSF 1Q net down 36 percent
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BNSF 1Q net down 36 percentBurlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.'s (BNI) first-quarter net income fell 36 percent amid falling freight revenue and coal rate charges, the Dow Jones Newswires reported. The freight-transport sector has been under pressure, and the latest results showed there is no re...
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$28.7 million in stimulus
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Stimulus contains $28.7 million for BNSF bridge (The following report appeared on The Hawk Eye website on April 18, 2009.) BURLINGTON, Iowa Enough stimulus money has been earmarked to upgrade the BNSF bridge in Burlington to make the project a reality. Sen. Tom Harkin and Rep. Dave Loebsack, both D...
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Evidence disputed in BNSF train deaths
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Evidence disputed in BNSF train deaths (The following story by Paul Levy appeared on the Minneapolis Star Tribune website on April 20, 2009.) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Burlington Northern Santa Fe destroyed, withheld, misplaced or manufactured railroad records last year during a trial involving fou...
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BNSF furloughs more employees
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BNSF furloughs employees againEDGEMONT, S.D. -- Even as some furloughed employees hoped to return to the train soon, the railroad has made additional cuts, the Edgemont Herald Tribune reported. In the past week, nine conductors and three engineers have been furloughed. The furloughs are based o...
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Attention Briznerd
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Date: 04/13/09 20:41 burlington northern radio signoff signal Author: run8ed I'm trying to get a recording of the distinctive radio signoff keytone (not sure what to call it) that used to be at the end of all BN locomotive radio transmissions. From what I remember, this tone has a certain sequence ac...
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BNSF extends 2,500 employee furloughs
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BNSF extends 2,500 employee furloughsAMARILLO - As many as 2,500 furloughed unionized Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway workers around the country thought they'd be back to work by now, or by April 12, Easter, at the latest, the Amarillo Globe News reports. But officials for the Fort Worth-bas...
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Brother loses leg
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UTU member loses leg in yard accidentMEMPHIS -- Robert Kevin Spragg, vice local chairperson for yardmen in Local 1420 in Memphis, Tenn., was severely injured Saturday night, March 21, at the BNSF Railways Tennessee Yard in Memphis. Spragg reportedly was struck by a cut of cars and lost his left leg b...
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Matt's Gonna Survive
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BNSF CEO Receives Compensation Valued at $14.6M Wednesday, March 18, 2009, Vol. 124, No. 53 By SAMANTHA BOMKAMP | AP Transportation Writer NEW YORK (AP) The chief executive of the countrys second-largest railroad received total compensation valued at $14.6 million in 2008, a 16 percent increase...
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