Burlington Northern Santa Fe [BNSF]
reviews and complaints

Approximately at 9:00 am central time at your track crossing in aurora illinois at terry ave a burlington northern truck pulled out and cut me off before the tracks. I had to slam on my brakes to avoid a collision. He then proceeded to block me off from crossing the tracks. I was already under the crossing gate unable to move. He got out of his truck and I asked why he cut me off. He answered he's a emergency vehicle and he's allowed to do that. I'm a retired firefighter of more then 28 years and have driven emergency vehicles most of my life and i'm aware of the law that emergency vehicles still must fallow the rules of the road including pulling out in front of oncoming traffic. Your employee then started walking away from his truck. I asked how long will he be parked at crossing and he ignored me. Thank god I was able to go around his truck safely in order to clear the tracks. I think your employee has some anger issues and should not be allowed to drive on public roads. Respectfully robert bruns.

I live in blytheville arkansas across from tomlinson railyard. I realize this is a switch yard with multiple tracks and the switch engines have to pull past the frog/switcher to put cars in order. However there is a railroad crossing about give or take several hundred yards. There is one house trailer and 2 farm shop buildings which store farm tractors. Hardly any traffic other than the bnsf workers going to the small depot office. All i'm is that from 1am to roughly 5am in the morning to use a little discretion and common sense at this time of night when obviously there isn't any traffic on blowing the train horn. It used excessively enough the horn sticks and blows for 20 to 30 minutes at a time. People are trying to sleep in order to work the next day. If I don't get any satisfaction my next step will be to look into seeking a quiet zone policy. Thank you kindly. Randall nichols 4714 east main blytheville ar. 72315

One day the train of the company bnsf railway blocked the road and a lot of people were stuck, because the train stopped and didn’t move. I was in the morning and a lot of people missed the work and children –schools. I called to this company and left messages and complaints, but no one responded. The horrible situation and the worst thing is that this company did nothing in order to remove train from the road. Share this info and post other comments about this company.

I live near edgewater and vickery boulevard west in fort worth and the train noise last night was unusual loud last night. It was like a shrieking shrill noise that made it impossible to sleep with the windows closed and earplugs.

It would be great if someone at burlington northern could look into this right away. I understand they own the railway at this location.

Parallel to the residential street and righ along side two extremely busy gasoline fuel stations the railroad operation of empty rail road storage of empty container sections which are continuously paraded at night with a horn blowing at max output sound are with total disregard for the need of residents for a quiet restful night of sleep. Ironically 75% of the affected residents are homeowners who work early morning to midday shifts in which it is thus made a near impossible task to get a good night of sleep.