Burlington Northern

Author: Earl J Currie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996122573
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Burlington Northern (BN) formed from the merger of four railways. Success required complex planning and implementation programs. Then the electric-power industry summoned BN to transport immense amounts of low-sulfur coal, and railroading as an adventure began for thousands hired to improve or increase the railroad's capacity, lines, tracks, and fleet size. Soon, BN's lines handled the highest tonnages of any railroad line in the world, past or present. This, the first in a two-volume series, covers this important decade.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway

Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher:
ISBN: 1610603613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Steam Locomotives of the Burlington Route

Author: Bernard G. Corbin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Burlington Railroad, The: Alliance Division

Author: Richard C. Kistler, Michael M. Bartels, and James J. Reisdorff
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467112976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Alliance has been a railroad center ever since the Burlington Railroad established the city in 1888 while pushing tracks into the vast, open regions of Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana. As a hub for trains carrying a variety of agricultural and mining products to market, Alliance became headquarters in 1902 for the large and geographically diverse area of Burlington train operations called the Alliance Division. For 86 years, the Alliance Division controlled much of the region's rail traffic. Despite the loss of its division point status in 1988, Alliance continues to have its fortunes closely tied to the railroad, now known as the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe. Today, the BNSF funnels large numbers of coal trains through the city while transporting Power River Basin coal to power plants across the nation.

Everywhere West

Author: Patrick C. Dorin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
"Fascinating pictorial history of the Burlington Route, from its start as the tiny Aurora Branch Railway through to its 1970 transformation into the Burlington Northern. Chapters cover its formation, the standard era of passenger service, gas-electric motor cars, Zephyrs, transcontinental streamliners, commuter trains, freight and mixed trains, coal trains, subsidiaries, and the merger. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With maps, station list, timetables and ads." -- Amazon.

Burlington Route

Author: Richard Cleghorn Overton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 738

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Building the Burlington Northern RR in N Scale

Author: Ed Hammer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780890241196
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
Demonstrates what's behind a room-sized N scale layout of this famous railroad built by 10 modelers. Shows how computer track planning, kitbashed buildings, and superdetailed scenery can replicate the 23,000-mile Burlington Northern.

Northwest Passage

Author: Rob Leachman
Publisher: Packages
ISBN: 9780945434405
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Transformation of a Railroad Company

Author: Earl J Currie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996122597
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
During the 1980s, three major events--a Frisco Railroad merger, leadership changes, and deregulation--improved Burlington Northern's railway earnings and radically transformed corporate objectives, standards, work methods, and technology. This volume explores initiatives and strategies Burlington Northern employed to reach the era's ambitious goals, as well as the cost of such profound change.

BNSF Railway

Author: Richard Billingsley
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445685469
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description
Seen through the lens of a UK-based photographer, this book shows wonderful photos of one of the world's largest and most iconic railways.