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Berkshire Hathaway's 4Q net income up 43 percent
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erkshire Hathaway's 4Q net income up 43 percent (The Associated Press circulated the following on February 26, 2011.) OMAHA, Neb. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reported a 43 percent jump in fourth-quarter earnings Saturday largely because of strong performance at its railroad business...
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Here it is, Clavalin: KIROTV.comTrains Collide Near TacomaPosted: 11:07 pm PST February 26, 2011Updated: 8:13 am PST February 27, 2011UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. -- A freight train derailed and sideswiped another on the banks of Puget Sound, sending some cars carrying a hazardous chemical careeni...
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BNSF likely to appeal locomotive engineer's $1.9 million award
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BNSF likely to appeal locomotive engineer's $1.9 million award (The following appeared on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram website on February 22, 2011.) FORT WORTH, Texas BNSF Railway Co. says it will probably appeal a $1.9 million jury verdict that found the railroad responsible for the back injur...
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May be time ta unload BNsf?
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'Uncle' Warren seems ta be going broke! What with giving all his money away, besides Bucket's bonus... Maybe he oughta rthink owning a NON-Class I railroad, as well as the insurance companies, furniture outfits, ice cream shit, banks, and other stuff... Feb. 14, 2011, 7:00 p.m. EST Berkshire sold s...
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BNSF Rocks Burlington!
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Demolition explosion rocks downtownDetonation to destroy old pier apparently goes wrong. By WILLIAM SMITH wsmith@thehawkeye.com A loud explosion roared through downtown Burlington Saturday night, causing the ground underneath Main Street to quake from the impact. The source of the explo...
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Fired. BNSF says workers are 'too fat'
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Fired. BNSF says workers are 'too fat' CHICAGO -- At the BNSF Corwith intermodal yard here, the railroad has dumped a contractor and said it intends to hire its own workers to load and unload containers and trailers onto and off of flat cars, reports Chicago News Cooperative. This comes after BNSF tol...
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JAN 1, 2% GWI PLUS MARCH 1, 2011 YOU 1/4 OF ONE PERCENT OF YOUR YEARLY LOCOMOTIVE WAGES EXAMPLE WAS U MAKE 50,000 THEY PUT ON A 125.00 DOLLARS INTO YOUR 401 K. AND THERE SOMETHING ELSE I READ OBAMA SIGN IN INTO LAW SHIT LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT SOMETHING TO EFFECT YOU WILL TAKE HOME 2% MORE OF YOUR WAGES, IN W...
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Date: 11/21/10 11:04 BNSF Pueblo Yard Derailment Author: cozephyr Minor BNSF derailment at Pueblo, CO, Sunday morning, November 21, 2010. South lead area torn up. Trains being held out for now. Coal traffic shoul...
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Been home 24 hours and there deadheading all hte crews home from the afht. Ravenna is hsut down, not even sending any empties west or coal loads outa Allience....
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Bout time this bridge was rebuilt!
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BNSF Burlington, Iowa, bridge reconstruction moving ahead Wednesday, December 22, 2010 The Burlington BNSF bridge is a swing span no more, the Burlington Hawk Eye reports. Ending 119 years as a less-than-150-foot navigation channel, the new lift span that was floated in December 20 will more tha...
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OSHA puts its own 'hickory stick' to BNSF
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OSHA puts its own 'hickory stick' to BNSF A UTU member will be collecting more than $95,000 in penalties assessed against BNSF by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) for the railroad's violation of the Federal Rail Safety Act. OSHA found BNSF guilty of intimidating and hara...
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BNSF alleged to engage in 'judicial misconduct'
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BNSF alleged to engage in 'judicial misconduct' "Over the past decade," reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "court records show [that] judges around the country have disciplined BNSF after finding that the company or its lawyers broke rules aimed at ensuring fair legal proce...
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Date: 11/07/10 11:01 Rear End Collision On The BNSF St. Joe Sub! Author: bnsfengineer At 10am at MP 41.9 on the St. Joe Subdivision the XRICCNB703 BNSF 793 struck the rear end of train XGATNEN903 who was shoving out of t...
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BNSF creates new post of president, COO
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BNSF creates new post of president, COOBNSF Railway executive vice president Carl Ice has been promoted to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer, with responsibility for rail operations, marketing and technology, BNSF announced Nov. 1. Ice is a former Atchison, T...
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Rush to judgment wrong in Minn. rail death
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Rush to judgment wrong in Minn. rail deathST. PAUL, Minn. The Anoka County sheriff's office has determined that a railroad worker fatally struck by a Northstar commuter train in September was not on his cell phone as initially reported, says Minnesota Public Radio. Andrew Kim Weaver, 53, a BNSF emp...
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BNSF and other railway giants watch government regulations closely
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BNSF and other railway giants watch government regulations closely (The following story by Jeff Bounds appeared on the Dallas Business Journal website on October 1, 2010.) North Line bridge rebuilding suspended until spring; schedule returns to normal Sunday after complaints DALLAS Railroad...
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BNSF asks to void awards, sanctions in fatal crash
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BNSF asks to void awards, sanctions in fatal crash (The following story was circulated by the Associated Press on September 30, 2010.) ST. PAUL, Minn. The BNSF Railway Co. is asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to overturn $28 million in penalties for a 2003 car-train crash in Anoka that killed four y...
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I GOING TO FALL BEHIND ON POST COUNTS UNLESS TROLL MARKS OFF I AM CLOSING IN FAST ON HIM. NOW HE WILL RE TAKE THE LEAD. UNLESS HE DOES THE FOLLOWING lThe following is the progression of discipline for attendance only (assumes attendance is the only discipline on file) l1st OffenseFormal R...
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BNSF to honor the nation’s truck drivers
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BNSF to honor the nations truck drivers (BNSF Railway issued the following on September 20, 2010.) FORT WORTH, Texas For the seventh year in a row, BNSF Railway celebrates the nations truck drivers by hosting events at several BNSF intermodal facilities across the U.S. During National Truck Drive...
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Burlington Northern spends $1.59M on 2Q lobbying
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Burlington Northern spends $1.59M on 2Q lobbying (The Associated Press circulated the following on September 25, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Freight railroad operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe spent $1.59 million lobbying the federal government on tax credits for track maintenance and other...
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Its amazing that you work for a multi billion dollar company who says you are terminated for stealing from them, yet they hire trainmasters and roadforeman to steal from you. When you put in to be paid what they aged by contract to pay you, and then they pay a roadforeamn or trainmaster to got take that mo...
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Freight train derails in Pierce Co.
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Freight train derails in Pierce Co. Updated: Monday, 13 Sep 2010, 11:01 AM CDT Published : Monday, 13 Sep 2010, 11:01 AM CDT HAGER CITY, Wis. (AP) - Thirty-one cars of a Burlington Northern-Sante Fe freight train derailed, with some striking a pet food processing plant in northwestern Wisconsin Mon...
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Families to appeal BNSF train crash decision
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Families to appeal BNSF train crash decision (The following story by Paul Levy appeared on the Minneapolis Star Tribune website on September 16, 2010.) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. The families of four young people killed in 2003 when their car and a train collided in Anoka decided Thursday night to take the...
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Buffett's Burlington, Railroads May Need More Rate Oversight, Senator Says
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Buffett's Burlington, Railroads May Need More Rate Oversight, Senator Says (The following story by Angela Greiling Keane appeared on the Bloomberg website on September 16, 2010.) U.S. railroads such as Berkshire Hathaway Inc.s Burlington Northern Santa Fe may need closer rate regulation, giv...
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