Class I Briefs: BNSF/CSX, CPKC

BNSF and CSX have been included in the 2023 National Diversity Council (NDC) Index. Also, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) has been recognized for innovation by the SEAL (Sustainability, Environmental Achievement & Leadership) Awards.

BNSF has debuted its Location One Information System that allows potential rail-served customers to identify the right site on the BNSF rail network for their business.

BNSF Wants Your Business

BNSF’s Economic Development team is making it easier for businesses to locate along the Class I railroad’s network with a new site selection tool.

BNSF Ramps Up Port of Houston Service

BNSF is expanding its network of intermodal lane offerings with new service options from the Barbours Cut Container Terminal at the Port of Houston as part of its “continued commitment to adjusting

At our intermodal hubs, where containers and trailers arrive or depart by train or truck and are transferred between modes, we’ll soon expand our testing of AI to enable hostler drivers to move the units more efficiently from parking lots to tracks or from tracks to parking lots. (Caption and Photograph Courtesy of BNSF)

AI: New Frontier for Safety, Efficiency, Service at BNSF

Artificial intelligence (or AI) has been a big topic in the news lately, with the rising popularity of AI software like ChatGPT and Midjourney. AI also has many industrial and commercial applications. The rapidly evolving technology is transforming how information is processed, analyzed and used to support sound decision-making.

Tom Williams, BNSF Group Vice President, Consumer Products

Watch: BNSF Intermodal Project Update

Following the release of BNSF’s first-quarter 2023 financial results, Group Vice President, Consumer Products Tom Williams outlined the Class I’s intermodal project plans and progress for 2023. In a May 11 video

Commentary

BNSF’s Continuous Improvement Teams Challenge the Status Quo to Enhance Service

BNSF is always working to raise the quality of our service for our customers as well as how we manage our operations. One way we do this is through the work of Continuous Improvement teams (CITs). Continuous Improvement is the process of identifying and analyzing problems and strengths, then testing and revising solutions.

(BNSF Photograph)

BNSF 1Q23: Revenue Up Despite Lower Volumes; OR Increases

BNSF on May 8 released first-quarter 2023 financial results, including operating income of $1.856 billion, a 9% decline from the prior-year period’s $2.041 billion, and an operating ratio (OR) of 68.4%, a 3.8-percentage-point increase compared with 2022’s 64.6%.

Unit crude from North Dakota to the Pacific Northwest crosses Lake Pend Oreille outside Sandpoint, Idaho, on April 29, 2023, using BNSF’s new bridge that entered service in November 2022. Workers on the older, adjacent bridge are placing concrete caps on new piers as part of a major renovation of the 119-year-old structure. (Photograph and Caption, Bruce E. Kelly)

BNSF Rebuilds One Bridge, Begins Another in the Northwest

Progress is well under way on structural upgrades to BNSF’s 119-year-old Bridge 3.9A over Lake Pend Oreille outside Sandpoint, Idaho. The completion in November 2022 of the adjacent 4,873-foot long Bridge 3.9B

(Steve Halama, Unsplash)

CARB Passes New In-Use Locomotive Regulation (Updated 5/3)

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) on April 27 passed a new rule aimed at reducing emissions from locomotives when they operate within the state.

NARS President Bruce Mann

NARS 2023 Annual Meeting: ‘A New Era in Railroading’

The North American Rail Shippers Association (NARS) will host its annual meeting May 24-26, 2023, in Chicago. This year’s theme is “A New Era in Railroading.”

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