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BNSF touts service gains as hub moves away PDF Print E-mail
Written by John D. Boyd - Journal of Commerce   
Saturday, 06 June 2025 12:54
WASHINGTON, D.C. — BNSF Railway is touting recent gains for its intermodal service expansions in the wake of Hub Group’s decision to switch most traffic to rival Union Pacific Railroad, and a spokesman said BNSF doesn’t understand why Hub is making the move.

BNSF is still the largest intermodal railroad, although intermodal shipment consolidator Hub will shift 8,400 of its domestic 53-foot containers over to UP while leaving BNSF handling only 1,400. The move could put more than $100 million annually in UP’s coffers.

Hub notified customers and BNSF this week that it would start moving over to UP within a week, a process that could take several months. “Hub Group has been a valued BNSF customer, and we look forward to maintaining that positive relationship,” said BNSF spokesman Patrick Hiatte.

But Hiatte said “we wouldn’t presume to speculate about the reasons for the change. We frankly don’t understand the decision and therefore can’t comment on it.”

Hub President and Chief Operating Officer Mark Yeager told Journal of Commerce his firm should achieve significant efficiencies by putting most boxes on UP, similar to the network gains it gets in the East where Norfolk Southern Railway handles all its moves.
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Burlington Northern furloughs 100 in Alliance, Neb. PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 28 May 2025 11:46
ALLIANCE, Neb. — More than 100 employees of the BNSF mechanical department in the western Nebraska city of Alliance have been furloughed because of a decrease in rail traffic.

BNSF spokesman Steve Forsberg says workers were told of the furloughs Tuesday. He says employees will be called back to work once rail traffic picks up.

Forsberg says BNSF trains have not been hauling as much coal in recent months because of decreasing demand. Many companies are cutting back on their use of electricity.

Forsberg says that even with the furloughs, BNSF still employees about 1,600 people in Alliance.

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