News Release

BNSF's Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer to Address JP Morgan Logistics Conference

FORT WORTH, Texas, September 5, 2001:

Carl R. Ice, Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), will address the first annual JP Morgan Logistics Conference on Friday, September 7, 2001. The presentation will cover BNSF’s results for the first half of this year, and will describe several service initiatives and growth opportunities.

Investors may listen to the presentation live via telephone. The toll-free dial-in number is (800) 937-6988 for North American callers, (706) 643-0893 for international callers; the required conference identification number is 1524207. The presentation is scheduled to start at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on September 7, 2001. A copy of the slide presentation will be available that morning in the Investors section of the BNSF Web site, www.bnsf.com . A replay of the audio presentation will be available at (800) 642-1687 or (706) 645-9291 for international callers; the identification number for the replay is 1524207.

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