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Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (AAR reporting mark BNSF), the product of a 1995 merger between the Burlington Northern Railroad and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is possibly the largest railroad network in the United States (the Union Pacific Railroad is almost exactly the same length) at over 33,000 miles of track. The BNSF railroad is headquarted in Fort Worth, Texas.

The assortment of colors used on the BNSF makes it one of the most colorful large railroads in North America. BNSF paints its locomotives in schemes derived from its predecessor railroads. Many locomotives are painted in "Heritage I" or "Heritage II" schemes, sometimes called "pumpkins", which are based on the Great Northern Railroad's colors of black and orange. Others are painted in "Heritage III" which is the Santa Fe's famous silver-and-red "Warbonnet" scheme, but with BNSF on the sides instead of Santa Fe. Even more locomotives continue to be wear the green and white or blue and yellow colors of the two railroads that merged to create the BNSF.

External links

• BNSF
• BNSF History
• BNSF Company Profile
• Interesting BNSF Facts
• Hoover's Company Profile

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