EMPORIA (KSNT) – A major railroad company is celebrating the completion of a large-scale project in Kansas which is expected to increase transportation efficiency. Workers with the railroad company ...

BNSF Railway Co. has received approval to use remotely controlled flying drones to assist in the inspection of railroad infrastructure and operations. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles is intended ...

FARGO — A union claims that a test of automated track inspection techniques on BNSF Railway ultimately will mean fewer visual checks of lines in North Dakota and Minnesota, setting up "a game of ...

The section of track in Minnesota where a train carrying ethanol derailed earlier this spring had a history of defects that led to employee complaints, million-dollar lawsuits, and federal safety ...

Despite how it all ended, Don Sanders misses his time on the railroad. “I actually made a difference in the job I was in,” he said to 5 INVESTIGATES in his first sit-down interview about his ongoing ...

WILLMAR — BNSF Railway employees set up their workstation atop the railroad tracks just north of the Highway 12/County Road 5 intersection west of Willmar on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Welder Nick ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently stated in a report that the probable cause of a November 2021 collision between towing vessel Baxter Southern and a BNSF coal train was the tow ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — BNSF Railway resumed shipments Friday along a track in North Dakota two days after an oil train derailed and caught fire, and cleanup continued on crude that spilled into nearby ...

LA CROSSE — State and federal lawmakers have joined the chorus calling for a more thorough environmental review of the BNSF railroad’s plans to add a second set of tracks through the city of La Crosse ...

Although the funding is not yet in place, it appears Amtrak's Empire Builder may be rescued from the flooded Devils Lake Basin. BNSF Railway, Amtrak and a federal-state coalition agreed Wednesday in ...

(Reuters) - Part of BNSF Railway's main track in rural South Dakota was out of service on Sunday, with no estimate of when it would reopen, after seven cars of a BNSF train carrying ethanol derailed ...