page_title: BNSF Railway
section_title: Railyards
hierarchical_section_title: BNSF Railway / Railyards
caption_attribution_description: English: Representative of BNSF's typical second-generation EMD yard switching power, BNSF GP28-2 1524 is at Hobson Yard in Lincoln, Nebraska in 2014.
context_page_description: The BNSF Railway Company is the biggest freight railroad network in North America. BNSF has 44,000 employees. They are one of ten Class I railroads. They have 32,500 miles of track in 28 states. They have more than 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that have rail connections between the western and eastern United States.
context_section_description: Large freight car hump yards are located throughout the BNSF system.
  Barstow, California - Barstow Yard
  Galesburg, Illinois - Galesburg Yard
  Kansas City, Kansas - Argentine Yard
  Memphis, Tennessee - Tennessee Yard
  Minneapolis, Minnesota - Northtown Yard
  Pasco, Washington - Pasco Yard
  Seattle, Washington - Balmer Yard
  Tulsa, Oklahoma - Cherokee Yard
  Lincoln, Nebraska - Hobson Yard
  Location of major intermodal yards:
  Edgerton, Kansas - Logistics Park Kansas City (LPKC)
  Joliet, Illinois - Logistics Park Chicago
  Los Angeles, California - Los Angeles intermodal facility
caption: A second-generation Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) yard-switching engine at Hobson Yard in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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