BNSF boosts Bakken oil boom

June 11, 2013

MINOT, N.D. — To bolster its ability to haul freight, including crude oil, Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway Co. plans to spend $4.1 billion on capital improvements in 2013, a single-year record for an American railroad, the company says.

Such grand business plans, though, didn’t mean anything to a young moose wandering through the huge Gavin Yard here recently. Train activity halted for a time. Moose sightings are not unusual in this town about 50 miles from Canada. The animals follow the river bottoms looking for food.

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