The board of the West Suburban Mass Transit District has approved the sale of six of its vintage Burlington Northern locomotives to the Mass Transit Administration of Maryland for $100,000 each. The ...

Norfolk Southern didn’t mind being late to the AC-traction party. And NS wasn’t just fashionably late, either. As Burlington ...

Burlington Northern Railroad, hoping for potential savings of millions of dollars on its annual fuel bill, will soon start testing locomotives powered with liquefied natural gas. Steven R. Ditmeyer, ...

At BNSF, we love orange. You may be used to seeing our bright orange locomotives moving down the tracks, but there are a few that look a bit different and have interesting backstories. Keep an eye out ...

Two train engines were parked on the railroad at the corner of Front and Jefferson when I drove by. They had the words "Burlington Junction" painted on them. Were they part of the former Chicago ...

Nov. 22--BREAK OUT THE BUBBLY -- Burlington's getting its own locomotive. Burlington's engine is replacing the one lost in last year's accident, Paul said. "This is the last locomotive for the time ...

On April 13, 1983, a miscommunication between train crews led to a fatal Burlington Northern train car derailment. A 111-car train and four locomotives barreled into the back of a parked train, ...

General Electric Co. plans to open a locomotive plant employing more than 500 people in Fort Worth, Texas, the hometown of Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe, as demand rises for railroad ...

Lake State Railway has introduced a special paint scheme one of its SD70M locomotives to celebrate the upcoming 250th ...

It is not yet known how fast the northbound coal train was going when it slammed into the rear of *** second coal train stopped just south of Pacific Junction to change crews. The wrenching collision ...