SEATTLE — BNSF Railway will study the use of physical covers for coal and petroleum coke trains as part of a tentative agreement reached Tuesday with environmental groups that sued alleging that coal ...

Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series that will appear in coming weeks about whether trains serving the proposed Millennium Bulk Terminals coal terminal will increase cancer risks.

Thirty-two cars of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway coal train derailed near Casselton, N.D., about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, scattering debris and halting traffic. BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas said the ...

Dozens of reports and interviews from the ongoing federal investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board into last year’s BNSF coal train derailment north of Pueblo are now posted online.

BNSF Railway has appealed a final environmental review of the Longview coal project, arguing the state and county overstated or miscalculated the risk of cancer for people living near the rail line to ...

A coal train being operated by the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad derailed Tuesday morning south of Brenham at the South Phillipsburg siding at the intersection of New Wehdem Road and ...

In some ways, Warren Buffett's acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. conjures up an image of a long-gone era: One of the nation's wealthiest men running one of the country's largest ...

BNSF's Hobson Yard is the central hub of the four major routes in Nebraska. Hobson Yard originally was a major stop on the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad. Under the Burlington Northern and BNSF ...

Several cars of a fully loaded BNSF Railway coal train, headed for Nebraska City, derailed Friday evening southeast of Lincoln. The derailed cars were in a middle section of the train that left the ...