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BNSF Telecommunications Overview

Tana Perkins Southern California Telecom Manager

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

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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 Forces1. Goal: Move trains, safely

2. Field team consists of: • Inside Plant (Electronic Technicians)• Outside Plant (Maintainers)

3. Maintains, repairs and installs

4. Customer service, break-fix, emergency support

5. 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• BNSF’s 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

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

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Technology Frequency / ModeCentralized 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

Voice

Data 1Data 2GPS Cell/PCSWi-Fi

On-Track Systems

Positive Train Control

•History

•What is PTC?

•Interoperability

•BNSF’s role

•Video: Positive Train Control

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Questions?

Tana Perkins, PMP, MSM

BNSF Railway

Telecom Manager, San Bernardino

Tana.Perkins@BNSF.com

909-386-4600

www.bnsf.com

www.linkedin.com/in/tanaperkins

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