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BNSF History
Growth of a Vital American Resource
Today's BNSF Railway is the product of some 390 different railroad lines that merged or were acquired during more than 150 years.
While many different railroads combined to form the modern BNSF Railway, all shared one or more common features:
- Pioneering Spirit - laying hundreds of miles of track over previously undeveloped land, overcoming great geographic obstacles and challenges
- Innovative Thinking:
- Equipment - AC traction locomotives, tri-level auto rack cars, land-bridge container trains to link both Asia and Europe and other rolling stock specifically designed for various products carried on the BNSF Railway
- Supporting technology -the printing telegraph, radio dispatching, centralized traffic control, and, more recently, a football field-sized, data-driven Network Operations Center
- Services - in-route mail sorting, intermodal services and new business tools for specific markets, such as an industry leading grain logistics system
- Efficiency - applying the energy efficiency of rail transit to supply shippers with cost savings and speed
The people who built the BNSF Railway are a unique breed, blending the forward-thinking of dreamers with the pragmatism of results-oriented business leaders. This heritage played a central role in settling and growing the American West, and is helping shippers achieve better business performance in the 21st Century.
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