
	Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation&nbsp;is the parent company of the&nbsp;BNSF Railway&nbsp;(formerly the&nbsp;Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway). The railroad is now wholly owned by&nbsp;Berkshire Hathaway, which is controlled by investor&nbsp;Warren Buffett.

	The corporation was incorporated in 1995 to facilitate the merger of&nbsp;Burlington Northern, Incorporated, parent of the&nbsp;Burlington Northern Railroad, and Santa Fe Pacific Corporation, which owned the&nbsp;Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway&nbsp;(Santa Fe).The corporate merger was consummated on September 22, 1995 at which point shareholders of the previous companies became shareholders of BNSF and the two companies became wholly owned subsidiaries of BNSF.In December 1996, the two holding companies and two railroads were formally merged, and in January 1998 the remaining intermediate holding company was folded into the railroad.
