FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway today announced its 2019 capital investment plan of $3.57 billion. The emphasis of this year’s capital plan continues to be on maintaining and expanding its network with an unwavering focus on operating a safe railroad that meets customers’ demands. “Our rail network is in excellent shape and its condition […]
WENDOVER, Wyo. – Two BNSF Railway coal trains derailed in a remote Wyoming canyon on Monday, injuring two people and spilling fuel into a nearby river. The Star Tribune reports that a loaded coal train rear ended another train north of Wendover. Three locomotives and four cars derailed as a result of the incident. The […]
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington state Supreme Court has ruled that the Pierce County, Wash., medical examiner isn’t entitled to a copy of a video recording made and held by BNSF Railway of a 2017 fatality in which a man standing on tracks was struck and killed. The ruling, filed Jan. 31, stems from a […]
BNSF Railway Executive Chairman Matt Rose, left, speaks with independent rail analyst Anthony B. Hatch, right, at the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers’ conference in Lombard, Ill., on Jan. 16, 2019. TRAINS: David Lassen LOMBARD, Ill. — What’s on Matt Rose’s mind? Lots. As part of a long-ranging conversation with independent rail analyst Anthony B. […]
BNSF Railway Executive Chairman Matt Rose speaks to an audience at the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers conference in Lombard, Ill., on Jan. 16, 2019. TRAINS: David Lassen LOMBARD, Ill. — Matt Rose has a lot of things on his mind as he nears the end of his tenure as executive chairman of BNSF Railway. […]
BNSF Executive Chairman Matt Rose TRAINS: David Lassen LOMBARD, Ill. — Matt Rose continues spiking hard on Precision Scheduled Railroading. Speaking before the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers on Wednesday, BNSF Railway’s executive chairman laid out additional considerations and problems he sees with the continued roll-out of PSR. He spoke candidly on the topic a […]
SANDPOINT, Idaho — The U.S. Coast Guard is looking for public comments on how two bridge proposals by BNSF Railway would affect navigation on the Pend Oreille River and Lake Pend Oreille. Two new bridges would parallel the existing 1905-built Northern Pacific bridges on BNSF’s “Northern Transcon.” One would be 4,874-feet-long. The other would be […]
MARCO ISLAND, Florida – BNSF Railway’s capital plans for 2019 include a cluster of major bridge projects in Washington state, and pairs of bridges near Quenemo, Kan., and on the Hannibal subdivision in Missouri. Not included is a bridge over the Missouri River at Bismarck, N.D., and therein lies a tale that serves an an […]
Matt Rose, BNSF Railway Executive Chairman TRAINS: David Lassen The criticism BNSF Railway Executive Chairman Matt Rose leveled at the other Class I railroads regarding their Precision Scheduled Railroading operating plans has been greeted by silence. None of the other five big systems — each of which is running or shifting to an operating plan […]
Matt Rose MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – Matt Rose thinks the railroad industry is placing itself at regulatory risk with its embrace of Precision Scheduled Railroading. “We have this common-carrier obligation to provide freight service to all customers in all markets,” said Rose, BNSF Railway’s executive chairman, during a Monday morning “fireside chat” at the annual […]
Belen, N.M. TRAINS: Rick Johnson BELEN, N.M. — Railroad officials are investigating the cause of a weekend train accident in Belen, on BNSF Railway’s Southern Transcon. A BNSF representative confirms to Trains that two trains were involved in a derailment Saturday, Dec. 8, about 2:30 p.m. local time along a section of triple track. Two […]
Metra CEO Jim Derwinski, left, and BNSF Railway Vice President DJ Mitchell address a public hearing in Chicago Tuesday. Richard Wronski CHICAGO — A key member of the House Transportation Committee publicly criticized BNSF Railway and Chicago’s Metra commuter rail line Tuesday for having “failed all too often” to provide reliable and acceptable service within the […]
