BNSF
BNSF Facts
| Route Miles | 32,000 |
| Number of Employees | 40,000 |
| Locomotives | 6,300 |
| Freight Cars on System | 220,000 |
BNSF…
- is the largest transporter of low-sulfur coal in the world.
- hauled enough coal to generate nearly 10 percent of the nation’s electricity last year.
- is the largest transporter of grain by rail in North America.
- runs Hobart yard in Los Angeles, the busiest trailer and container-handling rail facility in the world. In 2000, this facility moved more than one million containers/trailers.
- is the largest transporter of aluminum, aircraft parts and beer by rail in the U.S.
- was the first railroad to commit to alternating current (AC) traction locomotive technology in North American rail operations.
- has the shortest route between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest (2,218 miles to Seattle) and one of the shortest between Chicago and Southern California (2,214 miles to Los Angeles).
