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BARSTOW INTERNATIONAL
GATEWAY PROJECT

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MAY 2023

BIG Project Community Outreach Following the announcement of the Barstow
International Gateway (BIG) project last October, BNSF, in partnership with the
City of Barstow and the Barstow Chamber of Commerce, has hosted 13 small
community workshops, bringing together more than 100 stakeholders across a
variety of interests, including healthcare, real estate, education, small
business, youth…

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STRENGTHENING LOCAL ECONOMIES BY CREATING THOUSANDS OF JOBS, ENHANCING AND
ELEVATING THE STATE’S SUPPLY CHAIN ECOSYSTEM, AND REDUCING TRAFFIC-RELATED
IMPACTS ON SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROADWAYS.




SUPPORTERS

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MARIO CORDERO

Executive Director

Port of Long Beach

“The Port of Long Beach welcomes BNSF’s planned Barstow International Gateway in
the High Desert. This project will help improve supply chain fluidity, reduce
environmental impacts, and enhance the competitiveness of California and the
nation’s largest port complex.”


DAWN ROWE

3rd District Supervisor

San Bernardino County

“The County of San Bernardino plays a critical role in supporting the movement
of goods to the rest of the country. Barstow International Gateway will be
essential for modeling new and efficient ways to address supply chain issues
that have impacted everyone over the past several years.”


TRELYND BRADLEY

Deputy Director of Sustainable Freight and Supply Chain Development

GO-Biz

“The significance of BNSF’s investment to improve the supply chain here in
California cannot be overstated. Rail plays a critical role in moving goods
safely and efficiently, while reducing emissions due to congestion in many of
our high-traffic corridors. Projects like BNSF’s will work to strengthen our
inland local economies, such as that of Barstow in San Bernardino County. We
look forward to continuing to work with projects like these, as well as others,
to drive transformative investments that will enhance and elevate California’s
supply chain ecosystem for a more efficient and resilient tomorrow.”


GENE SEROKA

Executive Director

Port of Los Angeles

“BNSF’s planned Barstow International Gateway will improve cargo velocity
through our port and reduce truck traffic on our freeways. This project will
help ensure that goods moving through the San Pedro Bay will get to consumers,
businesses, and manufacturers with speed and reliability.”


MARIO CORDERO

Executive Director

Port of Long Beach

“The Port of Long Beach welcomes BNSF’s planned Barstow International Gateway in
the High Desert. This project will help improve supply chain fluidity, reduce
environmental impacts, and enhance the competitiveness of California and the
nation’s largest port complex.”


DAWN ROWE

3rd District Supervisor

San Bernardino County

“The County of San Bernardino plays a critical role in supporting the movement
of goods to the rest of the country. Barstow International Gateway will be
essential for modeling new and efficient ways to address supply chain issues
that have impacted everyone over the past several years.”


TRELYND BRADLEY

Deputy Director of Sustainable Freight and Supply Chain Development

GO-Biz

“The significance of BNSF’s investment to improve the supply chain here in
California cannot be overstated. Rail plays a critical role in moving goods
safely and efficiently, while reducing emissions due to congestion in many of
our high-traffic corridors. Projects like BNSF’s will work to strengthen our
inland local economies, such as that of Barstow in San Bernardino County. We
look forward to continuing to work with projects like these, as well as others,
to drive transformative investments that will enhance and elevate California’s
supply chain ecosystem for a more efficient and resilient tomorrow.”


GENE SEROKA

Executive Director

Port of Los Angeles

“BNSF’s planned Barstow International Gateway will improve cargo velocity
through our port and reduce truck traffic on our freeways. This project will
help ensure that goods moving through the San Pedro Bay will get to consumers,
businesses, and manufacturers with speed and reliability.”


MARIO CORDERO

Executive Director

Port of Long Beach

“The Port of Long Beach welcomes BNSF’s planned Barstow International Gateway in
the High Desert. This project will help improve supply chain fluidity, reduce
environmental impacts, and enhance the competitiveness of California and the
nation’s largest port complex.”


DAWN ROWE

3rd District Supervisor

San Bernardino County

“The County of San Bernardino plays a critical role in supporting the movement
of goods to the rest of the country. Barstow International Gateway will be
essential for modeling new and efficient ways to address supply chain issues
that have impacted everyone over the past several years.”

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PROJECT OVERVIEW

BNSF Railway plans to invest more than $1.5 billion to construct a
state-of-the-art master-planned rail facility in Southern California—and the
first being developed by a Class 1 railroad. The Barstow International Gateway
will be an approximately 4,500-acre new integrated rail facility on the west
side of Barstow, consisting of a rail yard, intermodal facility and warehouses
for transloading freight from international containers to domestic containers.

The facility will allow the direct transfer of containers from ships at the
Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to trains for transport through the Alameda
Corridor onto the BNSF mainline up to Barstow.

Once the containers reach the Barstow International Gateway, they will be
processed at the facility using cargo-handling equipment powered by clean
energy, and then staged and built into trains moving east via BNSF’s network
across the nation. Westbound freight will similarly be processed at the facility
to more efficiently bring trains to the ports and other California terminals.


KEY BENEFITS


ECONOMY

 * Will bring thousands of direct and indirect jobs to High Desert communities
 * Will keep the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach competitive
 * Will support a robust, reliable, and efficient supply chain


SUPPLY CHAIN

 * Will allow for more efficient transfer of cargo directly between ships and
   rail and maximize rail and distribution efficiency regionally and across the
   U.S. supply chain
 * Will improve fluidity throughout BNSF’s rail network, moving containers off
   the ports more quickly and facilitating improved efficiency in operations at
   existing intermodal hubs, including in the Midwest and Texas


ENVIRONMENT

 * Will significantly reduce port and highway congestion
 * Will maximize rail and distribution efficiency regionally and across the U.S.
   supply chain and reduce truck traffic and freeway congestion in the Los
   Angeles Basin and the Inland Empire by allowing for more efficient transfer
   of cargo directly between ships and rail


LOW COMMUNITY IMPACTS

 * Will minimize potential community impacts in Barstow since the facility will
   be located near primarily undeveloped land that’s not adjacent to urbanized
   areas
 * Will move freight off the roads and onto rails, alleviating traffic
   congestion on Southern California roadways and freeways and reducing the
   costs taxpayers incur for road maintenance


THE NEED

Currently, most international cargo at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
arrives in 40-foot containers that are then trucked from the ports to warehouses
in Los Angeles or the Inland Empire. Once the containers arrive at the
warehouses, they are unloaded, sorted, and reloaded onto 53-foot domestic
containers that are either transported by truck to a rail yard in Los Angeles,
where they are transferred onto trains or simply trucked across the country.
This process creates inefficiencies and unnecessary truck trips within the Los
Angeles Basin and Inland Empire that can impact supply chain distribution, the
environment, and communities surrounding ports and warehouses.

The Barstow International Gateway will allow cargo to be transported by rail
directly from the ports through the Alameda Corridor to Barstow and processed
efficiently between the intermodal rail facility and the on-site transload
warehouse facilities, without generating additional on-road truck trips. The
transload warehouses will expedite repackaging and processing of goods into
domestic containers for further transport via rail across the country.

CALIFORNIA IS THE LINCHPIN OF THE BNSF RAILWAY NETWORK.
IT’S ALSO HOME TO 3,000+ BNSF EMPLOYEES WHO SHARE OUR COMMITMENT TO PROTECTING
THE ENVIRONMENT WHILE SAFELY AND EFFICIENTLY TRANSPORTING OUR REGION’S PRODUCTS
TO THE WORLD.


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