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help with year of color scheme
help with year of color scheme
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ramoutandabout
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December 2005
From: near omaha ne
209 posts
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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GN-Rick
Member since
May 2003
From: Robe Valley, Wa.
719 posts
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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ramoutandabout
Member since
December 2005
From: near omaha ne
209 posts
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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RedGrey62
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August 2001
From: Nebraska
1,280 posts
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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