News Release

BNSF's President and CEO to Address 2002 Global Transportation Conference

FORT WORTH, Texas, February 7, 2002:

Matthew K. Rose, President and Chief Executive Officer of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), will address the Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown’s 2002 Global Transportation Conference on Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 8:25 a.m. Eastern time.

The presentation will describe BNSF’s financial results, strategic initiatives and outlook for 2002.

Interested investors may listen to the presentation via a simultaneous webcast at http://www.db.com/conferences. The presentation material may also be viewed on BNSF’s Web site at www.bnsf.com/investors.

Through its subsidiary, The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, BNSF operates one of the largest rail networks in North America, with 33,000 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 10 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