News Release

BNSF Honors 59 Shippers for Safe Transport of Hazardous Materials At Ninth Annual Product Stewardship Awards Event

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 13, 2006:

BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) today honored 59 shippers with BNSF’s Annual Product Stewardship Award for the safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail during 2005. Two companies, BP Products North America and Olin Chlor Alkali Products, have won the award every year since the awards were first given in 1997.

These 59 award-winning companies have successfully implemented the ethics of Product Stewardship under the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care® initiative.

"We are proud to honor these companies for their continued focus and commitment to the safe transportation of hazardous materials," Katie Farmer, BNSF vice president, Industrial Products Sales, said at a special presentation at BNSF’s corporate headquarters in Fort Worth this morning. "Their product stewardship ensures the safety of our employees, the public and the environment."

Implemented in 1997, BNSF’s Product Stewardship Award is presented to shippers who successfully transported a minimum of 500 loaded tank cars of hazardous materials during the past year with zero non-accident releases (NARs) (releases that are not caused by a derailment or collision) during the entire transportation cycle.

The honorees for 2005 are:

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.

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