BNSF Railway
The BNSF Railway Company and The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (until 23 January 2005) is an American Class 1 railway company based in Fort Worth. It is the second largest freight operator in the country. The parent company of the BNSF Railway, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, since 2010 wholly owned by Berkshire Hathaway.
History
The railway company was created by the Treaty of 22 September 1995 on 1 January 1996 from the merger of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the Burlington Northern Railroad and renamed. The company is running on one of the most extensive networks in the U.S. with a total length of approximately 51,500 km (2004 ), of which 38.6 thousand kilometers to own property and the remainder from track usage rights. Overall, the BNSF maintains with side tracks, second or third main track and station facilities around 80,450 km tracks. The company has 16,000 employees for the line entertainment, 18,000 for transportation tasks, and 4,000 for the administration. With 5,790 locomotives and 81,881 freight cars in 2005 10 million carloads were transported and generated sales of $ 12.987 billion. Operating profit was 2.9 billion dollars. The transport performance amounted to 870.983 billion ton-kilometers and the average transport distance was 1718 km. 2006 consumes diesel at the price of $ 2.734 billion 1.478 billion gallons ( 5.595 billion liters).
In 1999, the BNSF and the Canadian National Railway began merger talks to form the North American Railway. Due to objections of the other railway companies, as well as the problems with the merger of Union Pacific Railroad with the Southern Pacific Railroad and the division of Conrail, the Surface Transportation Board imposed a 15 - month moratorium. Subsequently, the merger talks were set inconclusive.
On 24 January 2005, the name of the railway company of "The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway " in " BNSF Railway Company " was changed. In April 2007, the holding company Berkshire Hathaway has paid for a stake in Burlington from more than 10 percent of $ 3.2 billion ( 2.4 billion euros ). On 12 February 2010 the complete takeover of the company was completed by Berkshire Hathaway.
In 2009 the company presented the first locomotive that has a hydrogen drive.
Route network
The company operates routes in 28 U.S. states and in two Canadian provinces. The route network extends from Seattle in the north west to Chicago. Southeast Rochester point is Birmingham ( Alabama). In the West, San Diego and Los Angeles is achieved. Furthermore, there are links to San Francisco, Houston, Denver, Dallas and Kansas City. Also the Powder River Basin is being developed by the BNSF tracks.
Container stations exist in Los Angeles (Hobart Yard ), Chicago ( Corwith Yard and Logistics Park Chicago), Willow Springs (Illinois ), Fort Worth (Texas ), San Bernardino (California), Cicero (Illinois ) and Kansas City (Kansas ).
Marshalling yards are located in Kansas City (Kansas ), Galesburg ( Illinois), Barstow (California), Pasco ( Washington) and Memphis ( Tennessee).
The key used by the BNSF passes over the Continental Divide are the Marias Pass ( 1588 m), the Mullan Pass (1691 m ) and the Campbell Pass ( 2208 m)
Pedigree
- Burlington Northern Santa Fe
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe was created from the merger of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) with the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1995. The Santa Fe merged previously with Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad and Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway.
The Burlington Northern was in 1970 a merger of the Great Northern Railway, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad and the Northern Pacific Railroad, which cooperated closely for decades and operated many of the American overland trains together, including the Empire Builder and the North Coast Limited. Both trains between Chicago and Seattle, some with coaches to Portland. The Burlington Northern took turn in the 1980s, the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway ( Frisco ) and the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad.