News Release

BNSF to Report First-Quarter Earnings via Webcast April 23

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 9, 2002:

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF) (NYSE: BNI) will report first-quarter earnings and other performance results via live Webcast at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time April 23, 2002.

To access the Webcast, go to BNSF’s Web site at www.bnsf.com.

We suggest that you go to our Web site by 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to download the presentation and install any software required to run the presentation.

A replay will be available in the “Investors” section of BNSF’s Web site beginning at approximately 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

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