Heavy winds had blown the tree onto the BNSF Railway tracks near Stanwood, about 15 miles north of Everett in Snohomish County. A weather station on Camano Island, just west of Stanwood, reported a 63 ...

SEATTLE — BNSF Railway will study the use of physical covers for coal and petroleum coke trains as part of a tentative agreement reached Tuesday with environmental groups that sued alleging that coal ...

The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community said Tuesday it had reached an agreement with BNSF Railway, ending a lawsuit over the railway’s trespass over tribal land. The terms of the agreement are ...

BNSF Railway today announced the Class I railroad has filed a petition with the Surface Transportation Board (STB), requesting the immediate review and enforcement of conditions imposed during the ...

(Reuters) -BNSF Railway has hired Goldman Sachs and CSX Corp is in talks to bring on financial advisers, as rival Union Pacific’s interest in acquiring Norfolk Southern sparked a wave of deal ...

Re: “Why high-speed rail will fail without better local train service” (Feb. 28, Opinion): The quote that passenger rail operates “in the slipstream of freight,” attributed to our Pacific NorthWest ...