BNSF Trains comming from Chicago/Mnneapolis have to south through Nebraska before coming back up onto their own line in Idaho. The Amtrak is still running its “Twin Cities Hiawatha” Builders as well. Hope this ends soon cause that reroute for BNSF is a big one!
Did you accidentally the entire thing?
BNSF is a prety kewl guy, it runs deh tranes and doesnt afraid of anyting
If they didn’t care about money…they would not be with us today!
BNSF and all the other railroad provide transportation services to their customers and expect to be compensated for the services they provide. The profit motive drives all businesses.
Well young man, you certainly don’t expect them to run the railroad out of love, do you???
Certainly not for the love and admiration of railfans.
And like BN, UP has made me a chunk of change. And that is what makes the world go round.
Well I can’t complain. BNSF is making me a large chunk of paydirt and of course thats why we are all here. 12 hrs a day, 5 days a wk, rd swtchr rate, meal allowance plus mileage , thank you BNSF for helping me pay for getting my master bathroom redone.
[banghead]And YOUR Suggestion as to how to run the Railroad is IS?[:-^]
I guess you’d rather the company go broke with problems like this one? And when they send out a few thousand pink slips, especially in view of the current employment economy, would you bounce in your chair and chortle in glee?
Crandell
Thy dont’ hav to south through Nebraska. The can north through North Dakota. BNSF owns their own lines through both states. As luck would have it, all railroads only care about moey.
In my best Tommy James and the Shondells voice: " Here she comes now, singing’ moey- moey!"
First of all, it’s spelled “Moai,” and secondly, I seriously doubt the Class One railroads really give a rip about the stone statues on Easter Island. So just relax.
Class I carriers, like any corporation, care about nothing since they are not people. If you were Czar of the Universe on what principal should railroads be run and how would that be different from other businesses?
I’m not even a company and all I really care about is money.
I mean I gotta sleep somewhere that’s not outside and somehow I keep needing food.
Money is very important, but it certainly isn’t the most important factor…at least for many of us. True, if the business is not making money then nothing else really matters; however, there are some things that are more important than money, even in business. BNSF (like most any business) is more than just a business…it is somebodies’ life’s work…in the case of BNSF…a number of people who have an ownership stake or who work there would agree with that. They are heavily invested in seeing the Company do well…they don’t look at their paychecks so much…they look at the Company to see how it can be improved and grown. Those are the people who move the company forward, and their predecessors are those who successfully built BNSF up from various other lines to what it is today. That requires long range thinking, and often that means foregoing short term profits because money needs to be reinvested for the longterm. That’s the irony I guess…the whole point of business is to make money and to create profits…but if you focus only on wringing profits from the business chances are you won’t do well with it.
I know it’s been said before, and I’ll say it again: Railroads aren’t in business to amuse railfans. All they’re concerned with is moving “stuff” from Point A to Point B in the most profitable manner possible. As much as we would wish otherwise, history, tradition, lore, what have you just doesn’t enter into it. Some are more hard core about it than others of course, but I think you get my drift.
What products are hauled by the BNSF that you use once a day, once a month, once a year, and once a lifetime?
Andrew
I want to run a shortline railroad on the belief of providing cheap, clean, and efficient transportation the way customers want, like the WSOR and CNW. There’s some railroads that know how to do it! Hopefully once i’m making enough profit from industries I can partner up with Metra to provide commuter transportation between Kenosha and Milwaukee. (we all know the government or Metra will never create the extension North of Kenosha.) Eventually, I’d also have passenger and freight moving between Green Bay and Chicago as well as my own vevrsion of the Twin Cities Hiawatha.
From what I understand, BNSF is one of the more socially responsible money-making private enterprises in the USA, with a reasonably good management-enployee relationship and reasonably good reputation with both its customers and the communities through which it passes. Maybe not the best in the world. It is not like one ice-cream company that sets itself up as primiarly to employ and empower the underprivileged, nor possibly should it be. (And that company has on at least one occasion, in my opinon, in the interest of "social responsibility, done, in my opinion, yoeman work in helping forces of darkness and prejudice!) I think well of BNSF’s management and I only wish them the best. I think most short-line railroad executives would also agree.
If you provided the service the exact way customers want - you’d be broke in a day.