BNSF recently announced that its engineering team and other partners have successfully completed the new second main line track, now in service, across the Emporia Subdivision, which runs from Kansas City to Wellington, Kansas. This is part of the railroad’s multi-year work on its Southern Transcon.
RT&S Managing Editor David Lester talks with the 2022 RT&S Engineer of the Year John Cech from BNSF about challenging projects, the technological movement, what it takes to work in the rail industry, and what it will take to recruit the younger generation.
In BNSF’s latest edition of Rail Talk, the focus is on the accomplishments of a production gang in Minnesota that completed important track work just before the beginning of harvest season traffic.
The September issue of RT&S features our 2022 Engineer of the Year John Cech from BNSF.
The Osage Avenue railroad bridge in Adams County, Neb., is going unclaimed.
John Cech, vice president, Engineering at BNSF, is the recipient of the 2022 Engineer of the Year Award from Railway Track & Structures Media.
Contractors working for BNSF Railway installed the final deck girder segment on the nearly one-mile-long bridge across Lake Pend Oreille near Sandpoint, Idaho, during the first half of August.
BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) has partnered with the Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA) to develop a new rail hub at the Port of Tacoma to meet increased intermodal demand in the greater Seattle region and unlock capacity.
A BNSF coal train derailed last week.
In response to significant ongoing service challenges, BNSF plans to issue a temporary permit embargo affecting some westbound traffic moving to destinations in California.
It’s back to the Ecology board for BNSF in the state of Washington.
Traffic will flow more smoothly through BNSF’s San Bernardino intermodal facility.
Rail lines and water lines are both important in Bellingham, Wash.
The Little Highline Fire in Potter County, Texas, destroyed a railroad bridge over the weekend.
America celebrated the 1976 bicentennial in many ways. The railroad industry celebrated in a big way by painting locomotives in bicentennial schemes.
This piece by Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William Vantuono appeared in the magazine’s news feed on Thursday, April 21. This court case addresses a very important issue, so we are reproducing it here. DCL
A toxic cleanup effort along a railroad right-of-way in Montana is coming to an end.
Regarding the Bismarck-Mandan Rail Bridge, BNSF is no longer playing around.
The Victoria County Navigation District announced the Texas Logistics Center at the Port of Victoria (TXLC).
BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) reported investments from customers served by the freight rail provider in 2021 totaled approximately $1.5 billion.