Burlington Northern
Burlington Northern

Author: Earl J Currie

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780996122566

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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 Diesel Locomotives
Burlington Northern Diesel Locomotives

Author: Paul D. Schneider

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780890241431

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With nearly 2,000 diesel locomotives on 29,000 miles of merged lines, until recently the Burlington Northern was the largest U.S. railroad. Photos and descriptions show how four railroads became one, and what happened to their diesel locomotives.

Transformation of a Railroad Company
Transformation of a Railroad Company

Author: Earl J Currie

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780996122597

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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
BNSF Railway

Author: Richard Billingsley

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1445685469

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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.

Riding the Rails
Riding the Rails

Author: Robert D. Krebs

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2018-01-22

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0253031877

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A former Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway CEO tells the behind-the-scenes story of the transformation and resurgence of America’s ailing railroads. When Robert D. Krebs joined the ranks of Southern Pacific Railroad in 1966, the industry had been in decline for decades, and the future of trains was in peril. Despite these obstacles, Krebs fell in love with the rugged, competitive business of railroads and was determined to overcome its resistance to change and put rail transportation back on track. By the age of forty, Krebs was president of the Southern Pacific Railroad and had also served as chief executive of both the Santa Fe Railway and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway companies. Riding the Rails: Inside the Business of America’s Railroads details Krebs’s rise to a position of influence in the recovery of America’s railroads—and offers a unique insider’s view into the boardrooms where executives and businessmen reimagined transportation in the United States.

Everywhere West
Everywhere West

Author: Patrick C. Dorin

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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"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.