Burlington Northern Railroad
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The Burlington Northern Railroad (reporting mark BN) was a United States-based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads. Burlington Northern operated between 1970 and 1995.
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Headquarters | Saint Paul, Minnesota (1970–1981) Seattle, Washington (1981–1988) Fort Worth, Texas (1988–1996) |
Reporting mark | BN |
Locale | Pacific Northwest, Midwestern United States, Central United States |
Dates of operation | 1970; 54 years ago (1970)–1996; 28 years ago (1996) |
Predecessor | Great Northern Railway Northern Pacific Railway Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (all merged by March 2, 1970) St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (merged 1980) Colorado and Southern Railway (merged 1981) Fort Worth and Denver Railway (merged 1982) |
Successor | BNSF Railway |
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Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
Length | 27,000 miles (43,000 km) |
Its historical lineage begins in the earliest days of railroading with the chartering in 1848 of the Chicago and Aurora Railroad, a direct ancestor line of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, which lends Burlington to the names of various merger-produced successors.
Burlington Northern acquired the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway on December 31, 1996, to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (later renamed BNSF Railway), which was owned by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation. That corporation was purchased in 2009 by Berkshire Hathaway,[1] which is controlled by investor Warren Buffett.