Word: railings
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...handle the surge in business, BNSF is spending $1.9 billion on capital improvements this year, and it plans to invest an additional $1.4 billion in 2005. Those sums will add to the railway's sizable investments since the old Burlington Northern and Santa Fe rails came together in 1995. Since that merger, the company has put down 600 new miles of rail, at $2 million a mile. With delays persisting along the busy transcon route, crews are out in the barren expanses of the Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle finishing up a two-year project to double track 100 miles of rail...
...East. "People from all over the world, from Europe to China, come to look at our system," boasts Matthew Rose, BNSF's chairman, president and CEO. They marvel, he says, at technological innovations like BNSF's intermodal transport system, which moves containers from faraway ports to inland rail yards, where cranes can quickly off-load them for trucks to deliver to retail warehouses. BNSF, which handles one-fourth of the nation's rail freight, posted double-digit increases in its intermodal business in 2003, with revenues up nearly 11% and total cars up 12.6%, to 4 million...
...railway's L.A.-to-Chicago transcontinental route is humming with mile-long BNSF trains, their railcars stacked two containers high with Chinese-made toys and togs, purses and plasma TVs. The town of Colton, Calif., east of Los Angeles, is now the busiest spot in the West for rail traffic, thanks to a tsunami of transpacific trade--$1.3 billion for BNSF alone this year--arriving at ports from San Diego to Seattle. "At the end of the day," says Rose, "all roads lead to China." Particularly railroads: BNSF's China-related business has doubled in the past six years...
...French love their trains, but were boarding them warily after bomb threats to the country's rail system. The government confirmed that its security forces have for the past three months played a cat-and-mouse game with a group calling itself AZF that has threatened to bomb the railroads - and two other unidentified targets - unless it is paid a hefty ransom. Officials were instructed to communicate with the group via personal ads in a newspaper, using the code name "Big Wolf" for AZF and "Suzy" for the Interior Ministry. A day after one such ad was posted, they received...
...into Britain's soul, hire a narrow boat and putter gently along some of the country's 3,200 km of languorous waterways. Britain's 200-year-old canal system, once the country's most important method of freight transport, fell into disrepair by the 1960s as roads and rail transport took traffic away. But over the past 15 years, more than $935 million has been invested in canal restoration, so today visitors can rediscover the joys of a bygone pace of life in city and countryside alike...