News Release

BNSF's CEO to Address Transportation Leaders Conference

FORT WORTH, Texas, June 4, 2001 :

Matthew K. Rose, President and Chief Executive Officer of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), will address the Merrill Lynch Global Transportation Leaders Conference on Wednesday, June 6, 2001.

The presentation will describe BNSF’s strategic initiatives and market opportunities.

Interested investors may listen to the presentation via a simultaneous webcast at http://events.mlresearchmedia.com/ml/transportation. The presentation is scheduled to start at approximately 7 p.m. Eastern Time on June 6, 2001.

Through its subsidiary, The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, BNSF operates one of the largest rail networks in North America, with 33,500 route miles of track covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is an industry leader in Web-enabling a wide variety of customer transactions. The railway moves more intermodal traffic than any other rail system in the world, is America’s largest grain-hauling railroad, and hauls enough coal to generate more than 11 percent of the electricity produced in the United States.

BNSF Headquarters
BNSF Railway Company
2650 Lou Menk Dr. 2nd Floor
P.O. Box 961057
Fort Worth, TX 76161-0057
Phone: (817) 352-1000