E&E

Feds and BNSF Railway set plan to protect Montana grizzlies

The agreement requires the company to take certain steps to reduce accidental grizzly bear deaths around railroad tracks. The Fish and Wildlife Service and BNSF Railway have finalized a plan intended ...
Business Wire

BNSF Railway Files Petition Requesting STB to Enforce, Review Union Pacific/Southern Pacific Merger Conditions From Three Decades Ago

FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BNSF Railway today announced the Class I railroad has filed a petition with the Surface Transportation Board (STB), requesting the immediate review and enforcement ...
Railway Age

BNSF to STB: First Cure UP’s ‘Old Harms’

In advance of the Surface Transportation Board (STB) evaluating a Union Pacific (UP)-Norfolk Southern (NS) merger application (yet to be filed), rival BNSF wants a separate proceeding to examine, with ...
Missoulian

Feds approve BNSF plan to reduce grizzly deaths on Montana rail lines

A lawsuit against BNSF Railway is set to be dismissed after the company and federal government finalized a plan to reduce grizzly bear deaths along rail lines in northwest Montana.