News Release

BNSF to Host Webcast October 8

FORT WORTH, Texas, October 2, 2002:

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF) (NYSE: BNI) will host its annual meeting for financial analysts and investors from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday, October 8.

A live Webcast 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 3:45 p.m. Eastern Time October 8 to download the presentation and install any software required to run the presentation.

For those who cannot listen to the live Webcast, a replay will be available on the “Investors” section of BNSF’s Web site about two hours after the conclusion of the meeting and will be available for a two-week period.

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 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