Burlington Northern Santa Fe News

The Columbia Street bridge sidewalk over the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad will be closed to pedestrians for one day this week due to maintenance work.

St. Cloud Hospital spokeswoman Jeanine Nistler says Eric Westin, of Pine City, died early Monday morning.

The Providence and Worcester Railroad Company is a regional freight railroad operating in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York.

An environmental advocacy group threatened to file a lawsuit Thursday following a City Council vote to approve a new rail yard for the Port of Los Angeles.

The death of a man hit Monday night by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train in Steilacoom was ruled a suicide, the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the city of Kirkland from removing tracks on the Cross Kirkland Corridor, filed by a small Ballard railroad company.

Authorities say a collision between a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train and a semi carrying anhydrous ammonia injured four people, caused a small leak of the volatile chemical and evacuated a nearby elementary school in western Minnesota.

A 42-year-old man died after he was hit by a train Monday night in Steilacoom, according to authorities.

Warren Buffett said the U.S. economy is gradually improving, but low interest rates have made bonds "terrible investments" while stocks remain "reasonably priced." Speaking on CNBC television on Monday, the chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Inc said the economy is benefiting from an upturn in areas that had not previously performed ... (more)

For as long as most of us can remember, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe trestle at Alhambra Avenue has been a rusty reminder of glory days of Martinez.

An area locomotive hub, and the foresight of local leaders, undoubtably will benefit the Franklin County community, a neighboring economic developer said Friday.

IBM announced enhancements to its PureSystems family of expert integrated systems that provide greater reliability, security and support for new platforms such as Windows.

In an interview with Reuters on the eve of Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting, Vice Chairman Charlie Munger said the company has over the years made many of its most desirable purchases in periods of "great catastrophes," but little appears on the horizon now.

Marysville isn't a city with an "other side of the tracks." It's a city with "both sides of the tracks." Marysville runs north-south, through Snohomish County, separated at 16 different points from the economic lifeline of Interstate 5 by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line.

Authorities say a 19-year-old Minnesota woman didn't hear the freight train that struck and critically injured her because she was hearing headphones.

NEW YORK - Railroads in the U.S. such as Union Pacific Corp. and Burlington Northern Santa Fe may be rolling past the record slump in coal volume as costlier natural gas and summer weather rekindle demand from the nation's power plants.

April 30, 1971. Ray Allan photo of last Burlington-Northern train between Vancouver and Seattle.

I took this photograph, way back in early November of 1989. An eastbound Burlington Northern freight train, is viewed passing through the Westmont Illinois Metra commuter rail station.

An aerial image shows a train entering a depot along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line outside of Williston, N.D. Just as analysts say Canadian rail use is set to soar again, shipping oil by rail may no longer be economic, Schaeffer writes.

Huff replaces Chief Mark Simpson, who resigned effective April 15. Simpson had been on leave since March 15, following challenges to the accuracy of information he'd presented to another law enforcement agency.