News Release

BNSF Replacing Rail in Oklahoma's Red Rock Subdivision

FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 22, 2008:

BNSF Railway Company is replacing more than 13 track miles of rail on the Red Rock subdivision between Arkansas City, Kan., and Gainesville, Texas. The project is expected to end in early November with a total cost of $3 million.

A rail replacement crew of 30 employees will utilize equipment such as cranes, welders and ballast tampers to replace rail at an estimated rate of one half mile a day. To allow the BNSF crew time to replace the rail, sections of track will be closed 6-hours a day during rail replacement until the work is complete. Materials replaced on the line will be reused or recycled in keeping with BNSF's environmental stewardship policies.

As part of a $2.85 billion capital commitment, BNSF currently expects to spend more than $1.8 billion to keep the railway's infrastructure strong by refreshing track, signal systems, structures, freight cars, and upgrading technologies. Unlike other modes of transportation, BNSF must build and maintain its own tracks, signals and other infrastructure.

About BNSF

A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), BNSF Railway Company operates one of the largest North American rail networks, with about 32,000 route miles in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is among the world's top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, carries the components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough low-sulfur coal to generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States. BNSF 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
Fort Worth, TX 76131-2830
P.O. Box 961057
Fort Worth, TX 76161-0057
Phone: (817) 352-1000