(Source: BNSF press releases, May 15, 2012)
FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) plans to invest an estimated $130 million on maintenance and rail capacity improvement projects in Missouri this year. BNSF will continue its track maintenance program in Missouri, which will include 1,507 miles of track surfacing and undercutting work, the replacement of 103 miles of rail and about 122,000 ties, as well as significant signal upgrades for federally mandated positive train control (PTC).
BNSF also plans to invest an estimated $242 million on maintenance and rail capacity enhancement and expansion projects in Kansas this year. BNSF’s 2012 capacity enhancement projects in Kansas include the continued construction of BNSF’s Kansas City Intermodal Facility southwest of Kansas City in Edgerton, Kansas, improvements to the Topeka locomotive shops, and significant signal upgrades for federally mandated positive train control (PTC). BNSF will continue its maintenance program, which will include 619 miles of track surfacing and undercutting work, the replacement of 57 miles of rail and about 247,000 ties.