Burlington Northern Santa Fe News

A message from the Village of La Grange: The Village would like to advise residents that the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad plans to perform track maintenance at the Kensington Avenue railroad crossing.

Springfield police are looking into a gruesome discovery near some railroad tracks.

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Jim and Dianna Murray, owners of a Kitchen Solvers franchise, stand Friday in their shop off of South Prairie Grove Road in rural West Burlington.

Two years ago Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway completed the purchase of rail company Burlington Northern Santa Fe.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the railroad owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., plans to spend $3.9 billion on network upgrades this year as the economy improves.

General Prosecutor's office spokeswoman Aida Salyanova said Tuesday that health and customs officers allowed the coal to be sent to schools, an orphanage and an old people's home.

After months of wrangling between the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors and residents of Co-op Road, the board reached a unanimous decision Monday morning: The county will abandon the road and remove all barricades, reopening it to residents.

A train derailed at the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Clovis yard Monday morning sending 10 cars off the track, according to Joe Faust, spokesperson for BNSF.

Senior Capitol Hill Democrats battling the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline are casting the project as a sop to the Koch Brothers, billionaire industrialists who pour money into conservative causes.

In a little less than a month, the cost to cross the Sante Fe truss bridge from Fort Madison into Iowa will rise by $1. According to Burlington Northern Santa Fe spokesperson Amy McBeth, the new toll will take effect March 1, and signs already have been posted to inform the public.

Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Burlington Northern's capital spending plan is $400 million more than its 2011 budget of $3.5 billion.

Did you know that the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line, owned by Obama's deep pocketed and extremely generous buddy Warren Buffett, stood to gain the most from cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the railroad owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., plans to spend $3.9 billion on network upgrades this year as the economy improves.

Authorities say at least six people are hurt after a Chicago-bound Amtrak train smashed into a semi that got stuck on tracks in southern Michigan.

Commuters should avoid the area of K-15 and MacArthur Road this morning, as malfunctioning railroad crossing arms have backed up traffic for more than a mile.

Rail transit is a religion around here, and those who publicly profane it are a small tribe.

Fort Worth-based Burlington Northern Santa Fe and other U.S. railways would get five more years to install crash-avoidance technology, a project estimated to cost about $12 billion, under a proposal by the House transportation committee.

The head of Burlington Northern Santa Fe said Monday that the U.S. economy is growing at a "modest" pace and the railroad will add jobs and new rail cars and locomotives this year to keep abreast of rising freight volume.

A privately-owned dump truck crossing 369th Ave. NE on the north side of Grandy was struck by a Burlington Northern train late morning on Monday, Jan.

Employees of Pfizer Inc. have filed suit against the company, alleging the world's largest drug-maker failed to properly manage its retirement plans and caused losses totaling hundreds of millions over the past decade.