Talk of Burlington Northern passenger trains inevitably conjures visions of green E units toting bilevel stainless steel ...

In 1948, the Federation for Railway Progress awarded the Burlington the Passenger Service Award for 1947. By the 1950s, the passenger rail business was suffering an irreversible decline.

Bringing back passenger rail service to the region will offer ... The rail system would use existing rails operated by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF).

In 1931 Ralph Budd, the recently appointed president of the Burlington Railway (and no relation to Edward), suspected that stainless steel was just the sort of injection that passenger rail travel ...