BNSF Telecommunications Overview

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• BNSF Telecommunications Overview

• Tana Perkins

• Southern California Telecom Manager

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Contents

• Who is BNSF?
• BNSF facts
• Our colorful history
• BNSF Telecom Team
• Local operations
• Ethernet/IP Use
• RF Use
• Questions

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Who is BNSF?

• Today's BNSF Railway is the product of 160 years
  of history, and nearly 400 different railroad
  lines.
• Our Railroad While many different railroads
  combined to form BNSF, the people who worked at
  those railroads shared many traits. The people
  who built BNSF were and continue to be a
  unique breed, blending the forward-thinking of
  dreamers with the pragmatism of results-oriented
  business leaders. This heritage played a central
  role in settling and growing the American West,
  and today, BNSF continues to have a significant
  impact in meeting the needs of shippers and
  serving the economy.
• Video Our History

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BNSF Facts

• Network 32,000 route miles
• States 28
• Canadian provinces 2
• Employees Almost 40,000
• Ports served 40
• Intermodal facilities 31
• Locomotives 6,000
• Signal locations 12,400
• Video Rail efficiency

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BNSF Facts, Cont.

• Bridges 13,100
• Tunnels 87
• Tunnel Miles 34
• Grade crossings 26,000
• Holiday season shipping/yr 50 million
• 2011 carloads 9.5 million

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In a Typical Year

• BNSF hauls enough asphalt to lay a single lane
  road around the equator four times
• BNSF hauls enough coal to provide 10 of the
  nations electricity
• BNSF hauls more than 1 billion cans of canned
  goods
• BNSF hauls enough newsprint to print 1 billion
  Sunday newspapers
• BNSF hauls enough fertilizer to fertilize a field
  the size of the entire state of Kansas
• We haul more cargo than any of our competitors

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Our Colorful Telecom History

• 1851, A perfect marriage, Railroad and Telegraph
• 1920 1925, Voice dispatching via crank
  telephones
• 1936 1943, Trainphone
• 1940s, Telephone voice on pole line (Enter,
  Telecom Team)
• 1960s, Radios and analog microwave
• 1970s, Southern Pacific Railroad turns
  communication co.
• 1980s, DTMF dialing and microwave build out
• 1988, Telecom Network Control Center, and tunnels
• 1992, First tunnel radio system
• 1996 1998, Advent of digital Microwave
• 2012, IP Microwave full rollout

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BNSF Telecom Forces

• Goal Move trains, safely
• Field team consists of
• Inside Plant (Electronic Technicians)
• Outside Plant (Maintainers)
• Maintains, repairs and installs
• Customer service, break-fix, emergency support
• Engineering and management infrastructure

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California Division Telecom Operations

• California Division Headquarters San Bernardino
• 3 field offices San Bernardino, Los Angeles,
  Stockton
• 58 Telecom employees
• 63 major towers, 100 tower/radiating elements
• 1400 main track miles

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California Division Facts

• Cajon subdivision hosts 40 of the nations rail
  traffic. Passing through this corridor, makes
  this the busiest bit of rail in the nation
• House the Western Transcon (Transcontinental
  Railroad)
• San Bernardino dispatch center
• Barstow hump yard
• Intermodal facilities, Commerce, San Bernardino,
  Mariposa
• Automotive facilities, San Bernardino and
  Richmond
• Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Harbor
  facility
• Alameda Corridor Telecom support/operations
• San Bernardino 1st Operational Positive Train
  Control System

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Local/California Operations

• Territory
• BNSFs California Division is based in San
  Bernardino.
• Three telecom field offices serve our division
  Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Stockton. A team
  of 58 manage the operation.
• 63 major tower sites, over 100 tower/radiating
  elements in all
• Over 1400 Main Track Miles, Several hundred miles
  of feeder/industry and private track

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Extensive use of Ethernet/IP

• Nationwide IP network
• Self-healing MPLS Core
• Geographically diverse major and minor data
  centers
• Secured Ethernet communications
• Increased use of packetized radio for 6.25kHz
• Centralized Dispatch use of VoIP

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Our Use of RF

• Large nationwide network of microwave systems
• Nationwide array of Telco circuits, on-track
  fiber
• Massive deployment of cameras, track condition
  sensors, environmental sensors etc.
• Leadership of new RF based train control system
  (PTC)

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Our Technologies
Technology Frequency / Mode
Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) 1.25 MHz
Hyrail limits compliance (HLCS) 54 MHz
Dispatch 160 MHz
MRAS 160 MHz
Land mobile radio 160 MHz
Positive Train Control (PTC) 220 MHz 2.4 GHz
Distributed Power (Locomotive Link) 440 MHz UHF
Automatic Equipment Identifier (AEI) 900 MHz
Cellular mobility 1900MHz
Analog microwave 6GHz
Digital microwave 6GHz
IP microwave 6GHz , 5.8GHz , others as needed
Ethernet Layer 1 - 3
Fiber Layer 1 -3
Distributed fiber Layer 1- 3
Data Copper, Fiber, Microwave
Back office
On-Track Systems
Voice
Data 1
Data 2
GPS
Cell/PCS
Wi-Fi
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Positive Train Control

• History
• What is PTC?
• Interoperability
• BNSFs role
• Video Positive Train Control

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Questions?

• Tana Perkins, PMP, MSM
• BNSF Railway
• Telecom Manager, San Bernardino
• Tana.Perkins_at_BNSF.com
• 909-386-4600
• www.bnsf.com
• www.linkedin.com/in/tanaperkins