It was 175 years ago today, Feb. 12, 1849, that the Illinois General Assembly chartered the Aurora Branch Railroad, a six-mile-long track between Batavia, Ill., and West Chicago. Chugging along with ...

The Burlington Northern Railroad was a United States-based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads. Burlington Northern operated between 1970 and 1996. - Source: Wikipedia ...

NEW YORK - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Tuesday agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., making a $34 billion bet on the future of the U.S. economy. Burlington Northern, the ...

DALLAS (AP) -- About 8,000 railway workers staged a brief strike Wednesday against The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. in several northern states over a contract dispute, the employees ...

GUNTER, Texas (KTEN) — The Gunter City Council and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad are now business partners. "We negotiated a win-win for both sides... I think that is a huge accomplishment," ...

In the 1980s, global positioning via satellite was still in its infancy. Burlington Northern tested the technology on a freight line between Superior and Grand Rapids. Burlington Northern locomotive ...