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News ReleaseBNSF Makes Free Reporting Tool Available to ShortlinesFORT WORTH, Texas, March 31, 2003:The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) is making available an easy-to-use Internet application that allows shortline railroads and handling carriers to report movement events to the Association of American Railroads (AAR). The new tool, part of BNSF's integrated set of Web-enabled iPower tools for customers and service partners, is free of charge to short line railroads. It is intended to provide event-reporting capability for those carriers who could not otherwise justify an investment in this kind of technology. "We're making this tool available to shortlines as part of BNSF's commitment to an efficient, real-time, electronic communications environment," said Jerry Johnson, BNSF's assistant vice president, Shortlines. "BNSF realizes that the options available to accomplish this have been limited and even cost prohibitive for some carriers," Johnson continued. "We also realize that growth opportunities will be tougher than ever to realize for those carriers unable to report car locations and movements with real-time efficiency." More information on the new event reporting tool is available from BNSF's Shortline Development group at shortlines@bnsf.com. A demonstration of the tool is available on line at http://www.bnsf.com/business/demos/SERDemo/SERHome.html. A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE: BNI), BNSF operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with 33,000 route miles 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 is among the world's top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, transports the mineral components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough coal to generate about 10 percent of the electricity produced in the United States. For more information on the company and its transportation solutions, visit the BNSF Web site at www.bnsf.com BNSF Headquarters |
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