BNSF, CSX Offering More, ‘Faster’ Coast-to-Coast Service

In an online customer notification, BNSF reported offering “new, faster five-day-a-week schedules from Los Angeles to many CSX destinations, as well as new service lanes,” including:

“These new schedules offer even more immediate value for our customers today by increasing speed, flexibility, and optionality while delivering integrated service for freight moving across the U.S.,” BNSF told its customers, who can view the schedules, along with all other BNSF intermodal schedules, using their login on the BNSF Customer Portal.

The announcement follows BNSF and CSX’s August partnership on direct domestic intermodal services between Southern California and Charlotte, N.C., and Jacksonville, Fla.; service between Phoenix, Ariz., and Atlanta, Ga., in an aim to convert over-the-road freight to rail; and direct international intermodal services between the Port of New York and New Jersey, and Norfolk, Va., and Kansas City (see map below).

The Phoenix-to-Atlanta service had already begun, BNSF told customers in August; the other services started in September.

“This collaboration between BNSF and CSX demonstrates the power of partnership, delivering greater flexibility, efficiency and value for our customers,” BNSF Group Vice President of Consumer Products Jon Gabriel said in August. “We are looking forward to these offerings providing immediate, streamlined service to the supply chain across key markets nationwide.”

Separately, Schneider National, Inc. earlier this month reported introducing Schneider Fast Track intermodal, described as “a premium solution designed for shippers with time-sensitive and high-service freight needs.” Fast Track followed the December 2024 introduction of an intermodal lane linking Mexico with the U.S. Southeast through Canadian Pacific Kansas City and CSX, both of which are Schneider’s primary Class I railroad partners, along with Union Pacific.