(Source: Reuters, March 11, 2015)
NEW YORK — Stung by customer backlash over last winter’s patchy service, Berkshire Hathaway’s BNSF Railways invested billions in shoring up its operations. But in addition to hiring more than 7,000 new workers and spending $5.5 billion on improvements to its 32,500-mile (52,300 kilometer) network, the railway also has done something unexpected: it pulled thousands of rail cars off its lines.
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