News Release

BNSF to Report Second-Quarter Earnings July 23; Analysts Meeting to Be Accessible via Internet

FORT WORTH, Texas, July 2, 2002:

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF) (NYSE: BNI) will report second-quarter earnings and other performance results at its regular quarterly meeting with financial analysts at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time July 23, 2002, in New York City.

Presentation material and a simultaneous Webcast of the meeting will be available on BNSF’s Web site at www.bnsf.com. BNSF suggests that those who plan to access the meeting through the Web go to the BNSF site by 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to download the presentation and install any software required to run the presentation.

A replay will be available in the “Investors” section of BNSF’s Web site beginning at approximately 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Through its subsidiary, The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, BNSF operates one of the largest rail networks in North America, with 33,000 route miles of track covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is an industry leader in Web-enabling a wide variety of customer transactions at www.bnsf.com. The railway moves more intermodal traffic than any other rail system in the world, is America’s largest grain-hauling railroad, transports the mineral components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough coal to generate more than 10 percent of the electricity produced in the United States.

BNSF Headquarters
BNSF Railway Company
2650 Lou Menk Dr. 2nd Floor
P.O. Box 961057
Fort Worth, TX 76161-0057
Phone: (817) 352-1000