When the Los Angeles City Council on May 8 approved the final environmental impact report for construction of BNSF Railway’s $500 million near-dock intermodal yard in Southern California, the approval proved to be the beginning of a journey rather than the end of a saga.
BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway is one of the U.S. Class I railroads serving especially the western half of the country, with a rail network of 32,500 route miles in 28 states and two Canadian provinces and nearly 40,000 employees. In 2012, the railroad handled 4.7 million intermodal shipments, as well as large amounts of agricultural products, coal, and industrial goods.
The Fort Worth, Texas-based railroad was created in 1995 from the merger of Burlington Northern Inc. (parent of Burlington Northern Railroad) and Santa Fe Pacific Corp. (parent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway). BNSF became a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., in 2010.
21 May 2013
Genesis Energy will expand its rail terminal in Natchez, Miss., and construct a new unit train loading facility in Wyoming in the Powder River Basin of the Niobrara shale play.
09 May 2013
The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday approved the final environmental impact report for a near-dock railyard that BNSF Railway said will improve the competitiveness of the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex while at the same time reducing port-generated diesel emissions in Southern California.
02 Apr 2013
Calling for additional clean-air measures at a proposed BNSF near-dock intermodal yard, the Long Beach Harbor Commission
08 Mar 2013
The Los Angeles Harbor Commission certified the final environmental impact report for BNSF’s proposed Southern California International Gateway.
08 Mar 2013
The Los Angeles Harbor Commission has certified the final environmental impact report for the proposed Southern California International Gateway intermodal railyard, setting the stage for construction of the rail infrastructure project.
06 Mar 2013
BNSF Railway will begin testing a small number of locomotives using liquefied natural gas as an alternative fuel later this year, said Matthew K. Rose, BNSF chairman and CEO, at the CERAWeek conference today.
05 Mar 2013
BNSF Railway CEO and Chairman Matt Rose said Monday the western railroad expects modest volume growth in 2012 but said the U.S. needs to spend more to prepare for a surge of freight growth expected over the next decade.
04 Mar 2013
Berkshire Hathaway reported that subsidiary BNSF Railway’s net earnings rose 13.5 percent year-over-year from $2.97 billion in 2011 to $3.37 billion in 2012.
06 Feb 2013
Behind the headlines trumpeting the major North American railroads' robust profits, there are plenty of moving parts.
25 Jan 2013
The major U.S. railroads could eventually snatch about 45 million truck loads annually on routes 500 miles or higher, as intermodal infrastructure improves, fuel costs rise and trucking industry capacity tightens, a Cleveland Research senior analyst and partner said Wednesday.
18 Jan 2013
So much of major U.S. railroad volume this year depends on the weather.
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