EX-4.2



 Exhibit 4.2 

BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA FE, LLC 

Certificate of Determination 

Dated as of August 20, 2015 

The undersigned, Paul Bischler, Vice President – Finance & Chief Sourcing Officer and Treasurer, and Beth A. Miller, General Director
– Finance and Assistant Treasurer, each of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC (successor to Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation), a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), do hereby certify that pursuant to the
authority granted in the resolutions (collectively, the “Resolutions”) of the Board of Managers of the Company adopted on May 6, 2013, April 28, 2014 and April 6, 2015 and pursuant to Sections 201, 301 and 303 of the
Indenture, dated as of December 1, 1995, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (formerly known as The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.), as successor in interest to J.P. Morgan Trust Company,
N.A., as successor in interest to Bank One Trust Company, N.A., as successor in interest to The First National Bank of Chicago, as Trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 11,
2010, among Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, R Acquisition Company, LLC and the Trustee, and further supplemented by the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 20, 2015 (the “Seventeenth Supplemental
Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee (together with the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), there was established as of August 20, 2015 two series of securities under the Indenture with the following
terms: 
  

	 	1.	The securities of the series are entitled (i) “3.650% Debentures due September 1, 2025” (the “2025 Debentures”) and (ii) “4.700% Debentures due September 1,
2045” (the “2045 Debentures” and, together with the 2025 Debentures, the “Debentures”). 

  

	 	2.	The 2025 Debentures and the 2045 Debentures are initially being offered in the aggregate principal amount of $350,000,000 and $650,000,000, respectively (except for Debentures authenticated and delivered upon
registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Debentures pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 of the Indenture and any Debentures which pursuant to Section 303 are deemed never to have been authenticated
and delivered thereunder). The Company may, without the consent of the Holders of the Debentures of a series, issue additional Debentures of such series and thereby increase such principal amount, on the same terms and conditions and with the same
CUSIP number as the Debentures of such series. 

  

	 	3.	The principal amount of the 2025 Debentures will mature on September 1, 2025 and the principal amount of the 2045 Debentures will mature on September 1, 2045, subject to the provisions of the
Indenture relating to acceleration. 









	 	4.	The 2025 Debentures will bear interest from August 20, 2015 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date (as defined below) to which interest has been paid or provided for, at the rate of 3.650% per
annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on March 1 and September 1 of each year (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing March 1, 2016 to the persons in whose names the 2025 Debentures are registered on the close
of business on the immediately preceding February 15 and August 15, respectively, whether or not such day is a Business Day (each, a “Regular Record Date”). The 2045 Debentures will bear interest from August 20, 2015 or
from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or provided for, at the rate of 4.700% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on the Interest Payment Dates, commencing March 1, 2016 to the persons in whose
names the 2045 Debentures are registered on the close of business on the immediately preceding Regular Record Date. 

  

	 	5.	Subject to paragraph 10 below, the principal of and premium (if any) and interest on the Debentures will be payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose, pursuant to the Indenture, in
The City of New York, which shall be initially the corporate trust office of the Trustee; provided, however, that at the option of the Company, such payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the person entitled thereto as provided in
the Indenture. 

  

	 	6.	The Debentures will be redeemable as a whole or in part at the option of the Company, at any time, as set forth in the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture. 


 

	 	7.	Holders of the Debentures shall have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or any part (in integral multiples of $1,000) of such holder’s Debentures upon the occurrence of a Change of Control
Repurchase Event (as defined in the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture), as set forth in the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture. 

  

	 	8.	The Debentures shall not be entitled to the benefit of any sinking fund, nor shall the Debentures be repayable at the option of the registered Holders thereof. 


 

	 	9.	Subject to paragraph 10 below, the Debentures shall be issued in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. 


 

	 	10.	 Upon issuance the Debentures will be represented by one or more Global Securities deposited with, or on behalf of, The Depository Trust Company (the
“Depositary”). Settlement for the Debentures will be made by the Underwriters (as hereinafter defined) in immediately available funds. All payments of principal and interest shall be made by the Company in immediately available funds as
long as the Debentures are represented by 










	 	
Global Securities. As long as the Debentures are represented by Global Securities registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, the Debentures will trade in the Depositary’s
Same-Day Funds Settlement System, and secondary market trading activity in the Debentures will therefore settle in immediately available funds. Except as set forth in the Indenture or in the Prospectus Supplement relating to the Debentures, the
Debentures will not be issuable in definitive form. 

 Furthermore, we hereby (i) approve the forms of and authorize the
execution and delivery of the Debentures (copies of which are attached as Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2 and Exhibit A-3), and the Underwriting Agreement, dated August 13, 2015, among the Company and Citigroup Global Markets
Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters listed therein (a copy of which is attached as Exhibit B), and (ii) ratify the
execution and delivery of the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture (a copy of which is attached as Exhibit C). 
 All capitalized
terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings given such terms in the Indenture. 
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intentionally left blank. Signature page follows.] 







 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have set our hands as of the date above first written. 

 

			
	By:	 	 /s/ Paul Bischler

		 	Paul Bischler
		 	Vice President – Finance & Chief Sourcing Officer and Treasurer
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Beth A. Miller

		 	Beth A. Miller
		 	General Director – Finance and Assistant Treasurer


 [Signature Page to Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee (Certificate of
Determination)]