In a wide-ranging interview with Railway Age in December 2018, BNSF’s then-Executive Chairman Matt Rose had this to say about the future of locomotive propulsion technology: “We’ve got to look at ...

BNSF Railway, a key part of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, champions its environmental leadership. However, it faces criticism due to its significant nitrogen oxide emissions. U.S. freight ...

U.S. railroads together produced about 485,000 tons of nitrogen oxide in 2024, ​compared to 452,000 tons emitted by U.S. coal-fired power plants, according to a Reuters calculation of reported annual ...

BNSF has donated an alternative fuel testbed locomotive, most recently operated by the railroad as a hydrogen fuel cell switcher in Southern California, to the Oklahoma Railway Museum (ORM). Built as ...

FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) and Wabtec’s (NYSE: WAB) exploration of the future potential of battery-electric locomotives crosses another significant milestone this ...

SEATTLE – A BNSF train derailed early Thursday on the Swinomish Reservation near Anacortes, Washington, leaking diesel fuel. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, state Ecology Department and ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 19, and International Association ...

As the issue of reducing natural gas flaring at oil well sites in western North Dakota has become a hot topic of late, one major hauler of Bakken crude is looking at the possibility of using natural ...

BNSF Executive Director of Public Affairs Lena Kent shares insights on the company’s $1.5 billion Barstow International Gateway at the 11th annual High Desert Economic and Real Estate Symposium & ...

DICKINSON, N.D. - As the issue of reducing natural gas flaring at oil well sites in western North Dakota has become a hot topic of late, one major hauler of Bakken crude is looking at the possibility ...

FARGO -- An economic downturn involving a variety of commodities across various parts of the United States has resulted in Burlington Northern Santa Fe parking about 45 of its train locomotives at the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY - BNSF Railway has parked dozens of its locomotives at a storage yard north of downtown Oklahoma City over the past several weeks as slowing traffic demand has left the units idle.