Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC provides rail road transportation services. These routes started at With the acquisition of the St. Louis – San Francisco Railway the route was extended into the The livery of the Burlington Northern traces its history to Burlington Northern locomotives were easily distinguished from other green locomotives at that time. Burlington was founded in 1849 in the small town of Aurora, Illinois, and its early fortunes were linked with the burgeoning midwestern railway industry and the growing nearby city of Chicago. The Burlington Northern Railroad was a United States-based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads. The first unit, GATX Rebuild In October 1990 BN departed from its Cascade Green, black and white scheme on its business car and locomotive fleet. The North Region includes the Montana, Northwest, Twin Cities, Heartland and Powder River divisions. The BNSF Railway Company is the principal operating subsidiary of parent company According to corporate press releases, the BNSF Railway is among the top transporters of The creation of BNSF started with the formation of a On June 30, 1994, BN and ATSF announced plans to merge; they were the largest and smallest (by mileage) of the "Super Seven," the seven largest of the then-twelve U.S. Berkshire Hathaway already owns about 22 percent of Burlington Northern, and will pay $100 a share in cash and stock for the rest of the company. Its historical lineage begins in the earliest days of railroading with the chartering in 1848 of the The Burlington Northern Railroad was the product of the merger of four major railroads: the The four railroads shared a very intertwined history, due to the efforts of In 1901, the two railways teamed up to purchase nearly all shares of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, giving both a needed connection to Chicago, the nation's railroad hub. The Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) was created in 1970 through the consolidation of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, the Great Northern Railway, the Northern Pacific Railway and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway. The South Region includes the Red River, California, Chicago, Kansas and Southwest divisions. Burlington Northern system map at the time of the BNSF merger (BN lines are green)With three of four predecessor railroad locomotives in a five-unit consist, BN 5738, a Not including 692 route-miles operated by C&S, 1201 FW&D, 186 Oregon Electric, 152 Oregon Trunk, 19 Walla Walla Valley and 2 MA&CR.Not including 678 route-miles C&S and 1181 miles FW&D. Somewhat of a simplified form of the "Heritage III" scheme, "Heritage IV" is virtually identical to the original "Heritage I" scheme, albeit with black instead of dark green, and the current "Nike Swoosh" BNSF logo. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF), owned by President Obama-backer Warren Buffett, would lose billions of dollars in oil freight if the Keystone XL Pipeline were approved. It absorbed the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco) in 1980. Unlike BN and ATSF, UP and SP had significant overlap, where the end of BNSF continued projects started by its predecessors, most notably BN's work on reopening With BNSF's large system, it hauls many different commodities, most notably The BNSF Railway directly owns and operates track in 28 For administrative purposes, BNSF is divided into two regions and ten operating divisions. The former Texas and Gulf divisions were combined into the Red River Division, and the former Springfield and Nebraska divisions were combined into the Heartland Division, in the spring of 2016. The first locomotive to bear BNSF lettering was BN By January 1996, BNSF had begun painting locomotives in the old BN and ATSF schemes by adding "BNSF" on the sides.On January 24, 2005, as part of its tenth anniversary celebration, the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway was renamed BNSF Railway, which adopted a new logo.Since 2006, BNSF's locomotives designated for yard work or local trains have been painted in the "Heritage IV" scheme. The assortment of colors used on the BNSF Railway makes it one of the most colorful Class I railroads in North America. Although it does not have a steam program like the Union Pacific, the BNSF has allowed for the In August 2016, a "huge number" of used hypodermic drug needles were found along BNSF railroad bridge in between the At the end of 2007, the average age (from date of manufacture) was 15 years for the BNSF's locomotive fleet and 14 years for the freight car fleet. Our Railroad. For the Chicago area Metra commuter rail line operated by the company, see Michael W. Blaszak, Illinois Central, KCS seek a potent union, Don Phillips, UP vies for Santa Fe; IC+KCS called off, J. David Ingles, BNSF begins service on UP merger routes, Bruce Kelly, The thunder returns to Stampede Pass, David Lustig, Merger or no, Santa Fe has work to do, Michael W. Blaszak, CN, BNSF seek to combine; timing curious, Michael W. Blaszak, STB slams on the brakes on mergers, Michael W. Blaszak, Stymied: BNSF, CN won't fight on, Kevin P. Keefe and Steve Glischinski, Meanwhile, back in Fort Worth..., Burlington Northern Santa Fe: A gradual change of image, Steve Glischinski, It's 'all in the family' with the latest BNSF locomotive paint scheme, Michael W. Blaszak, BNSF strives for an effective blend, This article is about the freight railroad company. BN painted theirs on the back on a As the final approval of the merger was approaching the By the 1980s the locomotives and rolling stock had an unfortunate habit of camouflaging into the scenery and causing accidents at railroad crossings. In about 2011, about 15 of the remaining cars had the original "BURLINGTON" lettering restored, while the rest now read "BNSF RAILWAY". BNSF operates one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America, with 32,500 miles of rail across the western two-thirds of the United States. ATSF "Yellowbonnet" with Santa Fe lettering, also lettered for BNSF Its historical lineage begins in the earliest days of railroading with the chartering in 1848 of the Chicago and Aurora Railroad, a direct ancestor line of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, which lends Burlington to the names of various merger-produced successors.