News Release

Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern Added to BNSF's Interline Pricing at BNSF.com

FORT WORTH, Texas, December 2, 2005:

BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) today announced that carload customers now can also obtain instantaneous interline prices at bnsf.com for shipments originating on BNSF and terminating on the Canadian Pacific Railway and Norfolk Southern Railway.

From bnsf.com, customers can review transportation prices for most general merchandise carload commodities from all BNSF origins to any destination served by CSX Transportation and some of its affiliated shortlines, the Canadian National Railway Company, the Canadian Pacific Railway and Norfolk Southern Railway.

"Our carload customers have long requested an easier and more efficient way to obtain prices for movements originating on our railroad and terminating on another," says Denis Smith, BNSF vice president, Industrial Products Marketing. "Previously to get an interline price, carload customers had to call the originating railroad, and the originating railroad would have to call the destination railroad and then get back to the customer. Now, customers can visit bnsf.com and instantaneously get a price from point A to point B on any participating destination railroad."

The availability of this information is part of a freight rail industry technology initiative to make interline carload pricing easier to use, more efficient and timelier for customers.

"BNSF could not have done this alone," Smith says. "It took the collaboration of several Class 1 railroads to develop the technology to be able to provide an instantaneous and easy-to-use pricing tool."

To obtain a price, go to bnsf.com, click prices, and select price look up.

A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), BNSF Railway operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with about 32,000 route miles in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. The railway is among the world's top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, transports the components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough low-sulphur coal to generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States. BNSF Railway is an industry leader in Web-enabling a variety of customer transactions at www.bnsf.com.

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