🌷 BNSF Spring Photo Contest! 🌷

Spring is in the air, and you know what that means… The BNSF Spring Photo Contest is back! Show us your BNSF Railway pictures in all their blooming glory.

Make sure to submit your best BNSF train photos capturing the season's beauty by posting

This National Volunteer Week, we’d like to celebrate our employees who are dedicated community volunteers. Our volunteers have built birthday bags for CASA children, volunteered as firefighters , hosted a Special Olympics cycling event , built homes for Habitat for Humanity,

BNSF’s fleet of Tier 4 locomotives brings reduced emissions and higher fuel efficiency with lower operating costs and greater tractive effort. More on Rail Talk at bit.ly/49KU5pn

#EarthDay #sustainability #freight #rail

BNSF predecessor railroads played a key role in promoting and supporting some of our most famous national parks. This National Parks Week, as you appreciate natural wonders, learn more about railroads’ role in their history on Rail Talk at bit.ly/3w1arfO.

Aurora, Illinois, a western neighbor to Chicago, is where BNSF got its start 175 years ago. A short track set BNSF’s destiny into ‘loco-motion’ and grew into a 32,500 mile network. Read more about Aurora on Rail Talk at bit.ly/3xFNCyP

#auroraillinois #railroadhistory

Amory, Mississippi, was brought to life in 1887 by Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad officials who sought to connect Birmingham, Alabama, and Memphis, Tennessee. As the backbone of the city, BNSF predecessors played a pivotal role in Amory’s development.

Today, BNSF

Tim Worrell, assistant superintendent at the Galesburg terminal, represents the sixth generation of Worrell/Leahy family members to work here. Read more about the Worrell family at bnsf.com/news-media/rai…

#railroadinghistory

Congratulations to our intermodal teams in Barstow, California; El Paso, Texas; Memphis, Tennessee; and Phoenix, Arizona, for achieving record numbers of container lifts in March. So far this year, we've moved 14 percent more intermodal volume through our facilities compared to

Planning on viewing the solar eclipse on April 8? Keep yourself and those around you safe by following these tips:

1. Wear eclipse glasses or make a solar eclipse viewer. Don’t stare directly at the sun without protective gear.

2. Put on protective sun gear

3. Don’t walk on

What started as a simple round of interviews more than a decade ago for BNSF conductor positions in Aberdeen, South Dakota, blossomed into a special friendship between four perfect strangers. The friendship between Mark Fleet, Trent Dunlap, Jeremy Dittmer and Tom Soper has

Scott Dibb, BNSF terminal trainmaster at our Northtown yard in Minneapolis, was assembling donation boxes for the local employee diversity council’s annual food drive when his 9-year-old daughter, Charlotte Dibb, remarked that people would want food from pretty boxes, not ugly

In the arid high desert of New Mexico, water is an increasingly rare commodity, especially in the eastern Navajo Nation, where many homes on the reservation have no running water. Drilling for new wells proved costly and futile, so brothers Chris and Drew Halter looked for other

In 2023, investments from BNSF customers totaled more than $4.1 billion. Because of these investments, BNSF projects helped create more than 4,200 new jobs.

More about supply chain solutions that BNSF helped customers achieve here: bnsf.com/news-media/new…

BNSF is now using virtual reality (VR) training for its mechanical teams! The technology delivers very real safety and efficiency benefits. When it comes to mechanical training, BNSF isn’t playing games. bnsf.com/news-media/rai…

#innovation #virtualreality #safety

Linking the Port of Los Angeles to major freight hubs in the east, our Needles Subdivision through inland California is one of the nation’s busiest corridors – but we understood that its 1.5% uphill track grade had become an operational bottleneck. We needed a solution, so we

At BNSF, we’ve partnered with American agriculture producers for over 175 years. We take pride in providing a sustainable transportation solution for the agricultural community. Happy #NationalAgricultureDay !

BNSF made history last week by moving the largest wind blade ever transported by rail in North America: A whopping 80.5M long!

This is a dedicated wind blade train, moving Vestas Wind Systems blades from Colorado to Texas.

Photo by BNSF team member Bryan Echols, who helped ensure this

The Smokehouse Creek Fire is far from over. More than one million acres of land across the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma have burned as emergency responders continue to work to fight the largest wildfire in Texas history.

The Texas Panhandle is an area where BNSF

These photographers captured some incredible scenes of our trains in stunning landscapes along our rail network. We received a flurry of photos for this year’s Winter Photo Contest Check out all of our winners at bit.ly/3VfVEbx.

#railphotography #trainphotos

Over the weekend BNSF was proud to host the 25th annual Technology Awareness Day (TAD)! Promoting careers in technology and achievement in STEM for high schoolers, we opened our doors to over 200 students from underserved schools in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Between meet and greets