FreightWaves Classics: Exploring the history of BNSF

A passing flash identifies BNSF locomotive No. 7360 pulling an intermodal stack car with BNSF domestic containers across the Southwest desert. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

Like many of the FreightWaves staff and our readers, I like trucks… and ships, airplanes and trains. I also like to learn the history of different aspects of transportation and logistics and the companies that have helped build that history. 

This is the first installment of a multi-part article on the history of BNSF Railway, one of the seven Class I railroads remaining in North America. Much of the information contained in this and later articles comes from the BNSF website and specifically...

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