# BNSF Railway API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/berkshire-hathaway/bnsf-api/  
**Provider:** Berkshire Hathaway — https://apis.io/providers/berkshire-hathaway/  
**Documentation:** https://www.bnsf.com/ship-with-bnsf/support-services/customer-api/

BNSF Railway API is published by [Berkshire Hathaway](https://apis.io/providers/berkshire-hathaway/) on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Freight, Logistics, Rail, Shipment Tracking, and Supply Chain. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a getting-started guide, an API reference, and a support channel.

The BNSF API Center provides customer APIs for programmatic integration with BNSF Railway freight shipping operations. APIs enable real-time shipment tracing, intermodal hub operations, pricing and rate retrieval, transit schedule lookups, waybill management, and diagnostic testing. Authentication uses certificate-based mutual TLS (mTLS) for secure identity validation between customers and BNSF systems.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **Documentation** — https://www.bnsf.com/ship-with-bnsf/support-services/customer-api/
- **GettingStarted** — https://www.bnsf.com/ship-with-bnsf/support-services/customer-api/getting-started/
- **Console** — https://www.bnsf.com/ship-with-bnsf/support-services/customer-api/developers-console/
- **APIReference** — https://www.bnsf.com/ship-with-bnsf/support-services/customer-api/catalog/
- **Support** — https://www.bnsf.com/ship-with-bnsf/support-services/customer-api/support/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/berkshire-hathaway/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Tags

Freight, Logistics, Rail, Shipment Tracking, Supply Chain, Transportation

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