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As a result of mergers and consolidations in the railway industry, the company's shareholders changed. As of 2021, BNSF Railway owned 50% of the company's shares. [5] As of 2023, the company is still covered by the Railroad Retirement Act. [6] The company's archives from 1905 to 1936 are held by History Colorado. [7]
BNSF Railway (reporting mark BNSF) is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, [1] 33,400 miles (53,800 km) of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. [2]
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The Texas City Terminal Railway is an American terminal railroad that operates 32 miles (51 km) of track at the Port of Texas City in Texas City, Texas. [1] Established in 1921, [ 2 ] the TCTR is jointly owned by the Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway .
A BNSF freight train passes Corcoran station on the Bakersfield Subdivision, 2010 The Bakersfield Subdivision is a railway line in California owned and operated by the BNSF Railway . It runs from Fresno in the north where it connects to the Stockton Subdivision and Bakersfield in the south where it continues as the Mojave Subdivision .
September 25, 2013 – A BNSF freight train collides with the rear of another standing BNSF train in Amarillo, Texas, derailing about 30 cars of the standing train. A third train traveling on the parallel main track collides with the wreckage. Four BNSF crewmen were injured and treated at local hospitals; no fatalities were reported. [25]
The Southern Transcon is a main line of the BNSF Railway comprising 11 subdivisions between Southern California and Chicago, Illinois.Completed in its current alignment in 1908 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, when it opened the Belen Cutoff in New Mexico (going through eastern New Mexico, northwestern Texas, briefly part of western Oklahoma and to Kansas) and bypassed the steep ...
The line is operated by BNSF under a "purchase of service agreement" with Metra, inherited from Burlington Northern. While Metra owns all rolling stock, the management and crews are BNSF employees. BNSF is the owner of the right-of-way, controls the line and handles dispatching from corporate headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. Metra imposes a ...