James J. Hill: The original “Empire Builder”
We’re proud of our heritage at BNSF Railway. Over the past 170-plus years, our 390 predecessors laid the foundation for what is now our 32,500-mile rail network, from the West Coast to the Mississippi River, to the Mexico border and into Canada. The scope of our network would not have been possible without innovative leaders like James J. Hill, first president of the Great Northern Railway (GN), a major BNSF predecessor.
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