January 29, 2020 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Inforum, January 28, 2020) MOORHEAD, Minn. — It has been a dark start to the past few days for Todd Carlson and his neighbors. He and dozens of others in north Moorhead’s Crystal Creek community feel boxed in as more than 150 BNSF Railway cars now line...
January 28, 2020 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Bonners Ferry Herald, January 27, 2020) MOYIE SPRINGS, Idaho — Trains traditionally use a bridge to cross a river. But last weekend, aided by numerous air bags attached by divers, the final BNSF locomotive that remained in the Kootenai River after the New...
January 27, 2020 | BNSF, Headlines, UP
(Source: American Journal of Transportation, January 24, 2020) LOS ANGELES — Peter Friedmann, executive director of the Washington, D.C. Agriculture Transportation Coalition, says better and cheaper rail service will help U.S. West Coast ports and agricultural...
January 27, 2020 | BNSF, Headlines, UP
(Source: Los Angeles Times, January 27, 2020) BERKELEY — California’s railroad tracks are now lined with men and women sleeping in tents or under cardboard boxes, from the underpasses of Oakland and L.A. to the farmlands of the Central Valley. As a result, train...
January 24, 2020 | Amtrak, BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Leavenworth Times, January 23, 2020) LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — The challenge of stretching Amtrak passenger service from Oklahoma City to the central Kansas community of Newton boils down to scoring federal investment for construction of railroad infrastructure...
January 20, 2020 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Kootenai Valley Times, January 17, 2020) BONNERS FERRY, Idaho — In a ceremony Thursday afternoon, Sheriff Dave Kramer presented Search and Rescue (SAR) member and BNSF track inspector Adam Reeves a Boundary County Sheriff’s Office Rescue Award and...
January 20, 2020 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, January 17, 2020) U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) yesterday questioned whether the nation’s four largest Class Is are committed to combating climate change. Full story:...
January 17, 2020 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Kootenai Valley Times, January 15, 2020) BONNERS FERRY, Idaho — A North Idaho environmental group asking donations to “support grassroots resistance to dirty corporate energy” has labeled the New Year’s Day BNSF derailment on two locomotives...
January 16, 2020 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Kootenai Valley Times, January 14, 2020) BONNERS FERRY, Idaho — Burlington Northern Santa Fe officials report that crews have removed one of the two locomotives that went over an embankment and into the Kootenai River about three miles east of the...
January 13, 2020 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Bellevue Reporter, January 12, 2020) KIRKLAND, Wash. — Mary Paterson’s involvement in solutionary rail, a vision to electrify rail corridors spanning the U.S., began with a book review. Full story: Bellevue Reporter
