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Through attrition and following the lead of NS and UP based on consulting by Jim Vena, BNSF is staging for the furlough of 400 mech employees between Jan and Feb 2025. BNSF in conjunction with peak season profits and down term normally observed at the end of December, and uncertainty following the upcoming November elections, has also began the preparations for furloughs of approximately 400 TY&E system wide and 300 MOW workers system wide to account for lost volume associated with slowed rail traffic during winter months and weather related events during the same event, According to Kendall Sloan and various spokespersons within BNSF speaking through anonymity, BNSF has began preparing for furloughs through conditional offers of employment being offered to account for lost workers who will choose not to return following a seasonal layoff. This matches both BNSF and Ancora holdings plans to streamline profits in class 1 railroads through the implementation of an as needed staffing plan that intends to create quarterly short term increases in profit through worker layoffs for non exempt employees and benefit package cuts to exempt employees. While BNSF states that it is not implementing a progressive railroading plan, its plan is to reduce staffing to match the ability of trains to run with less workers to include in the southern trans con, where its ability to move more freight with longer trains and new fueling plans has resulted in the ability to inspect utilizing wayside readers and camera systems to identify defects, while eliminating delays that it considers to be associated with worker based inspections outside of mechanical facilities. In conjunction with partnerships with the FRA and the ability to receive in route waivers through digital flagging, and an ability to allow locomotives and rail cars to operate until they reach a repair facility without being removed from service unless deemed as an emergency or specifically necessary to operate repair will, based on BNSF operating strategy, reduce dwell, down time based on in route inspections, cost to customers, and BNSF overhead with regard to operating expenses