BNSF to Report Fourth-Quarter Earnings January 24

FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF) will report its fourth-quarter and year-end 2005 earnings in a meeting with financial analysts in New York City and through a simultaneous Webcast at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time January 24, 2006. BNSF plans to issue its earnings press release at about 8 a.m. Eastern Time that day.

The Webcast will be led by BNSF Chairman, President and CEO Matt Rose and will include presentations from Tom Hund, executive vice president and chief financial officer; John Lanigan, executive vice president and chief marketing officer; and Carl Ice, executive vice president and chief operations officer. The presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

Presentation material will be available on BNSF's Web site at http://www.bnsf.com/ under the "Investors" link. We suggest that those who plan to access the Webcast go to the BNSF Web site by 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to download and install any software required to run the presentation. To participate via teleconference, please dial (888) 428-4470 in the U.S. and Canada or International (612) 332-0820.

A replay of the Webcast will be available in the "Investors" section of BNSF's Web site from about 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time January 24 until midnight Eastern time February 7. An MP3 downloadable audio file also will be available at the same location.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation's subsidiary BNSF Railway Company operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with about 32,000 route miles in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. The railway is among the world's top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, transports the components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough low-sulphur coal to generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States. BNSF is an industry leader in Web-enabling a variety of customer transactions at http://www.bnsf.com/ .