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help with year of color scheme

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help with year of color scheme
Posted by ramoutandabout on Sunday, January 22, 2006 7:34 AM
what years would the burlington route engine be. Mainly black with yellow red ewith the " everywear west " scheme be thanks
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Posted by GN-Rick on Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:45 PM
Anytime from the beginning of the Q's dieselization-early 40s-up till the purchase of GP20s in about 1960, which were the first units delivered in Chinese Red.
Rick Bolger Great Northern Railway Cascade Division-Lines West
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Posted by ramoutandabout on Monday, January 23, 2006 6:17 AM
thank you im looking at a atlas switcher im modelling the transition era


thanks again

ray
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Posted by RedGrey62 on Saturday, February 11, 2006 12:20 PM
The switchers kept the "blackbird" scheme until the 1970 merger. Yard switchers that is, NWs, SWs, VOs, and the S-2/S-4s. Road switchers, GP7s and 9s, as GN-Rick said, mostly would have been painted red and grey in the 60's.

Rick
"...Mother Nature will always punish the incompetent and uninformed." Bill Barney from Thor's Legions

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