Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. Looks to Expand Transload Business.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: November 22, 2002 | Copyright information

By Suzanne Marta, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 22--IRVING, Texas--Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. locomotives pull a handful of cars loaded with lumber into Desticon Transportation Texas Inc.'s rail facility in Irving each weekday. The lumber is unloaded by forklift and then reloaded onto trucks or stored for a few days before being taken to lumber yards throughout North Texas.

The Fort Worth-based railroad tea...