News Release

BNSF to Report First-Quarter Earnings April 22

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 7, 2003:

Financial analysts and investors are invited to join Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF) (NYSE: BNI) via the Web for BNSF's regular quarterly meeting with financial analysts on Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time. BNSF will report first-quarter earnings and other performance results.

Presentation material and the 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 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.

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