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Check these out: [img]http://www.burlingtonroute.com/mdepot/mbrmodel/bmrr1849.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.burlingtonroute.com/mdepot/mbrmodel/bmrr1999.jpg[/img] Those were painted by BRHS member Dave Lotz, who I (barely) know, he said that he almost got BNSF to paint a locomotive in the CB&Q scheme but it didn't happen.[:(] Both look pretty cool on a modern diesel though, considering we only have 6 roads' schemes to choose from now, and only 1 or 2 of those is even decent-looking... At the moment, I am thinking the Q's slightly modified (and continuing) history will go something like this: " The Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Burlington, and Spokane, Portland & Seattle were scheduled to merge on March 1st, 1970, into the Burlington Northern. The "Hill Lines," as the four roads were called, had unsuccessfully been trying to merge into one company since 1903, when James J. Hill bought the CB&Q. In the 1960's, the much larger CB&Q, which was almost completely owned by the smaller GN and NP, began buying itself back from what had been it's owners since 1903. The GN, NP, no longer owning the majority of the CB&Q, called off the 1970 merger, instead splitting up the SP&S between each other and improving run-through power over the CB&Q system. The Burlington bought the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad, better known as the "Frisco" in 1980, to get an upper hand on the arch-rival Union Pacific's Southwestern road acquisitions. Also by 1980 the CB&Q had completely merged the FW&D and Colorado & Southern subsidiaries into the CB&Q. During the 1990s the GN, NP, and CB&Q were operating better than some companies that had merged several years ago. The three lines had good public relations (steam programs were present on all 3 lines), fast, depandable service, and the extra capacity to keep traffic surges from turning into "meltdowns", a problem the archrival UP never could solve[;)]. The three companies were often referred to as the best operated companies in the USA, which was true for the quality of service the three lines offered. The SD70MAC became the locomotive of choice for the "Hill Lines," and the CB&Q still maintained it's fair amount of GP38-2s from the Frisco for branchline service." Notice no hint of the ATSF whatsoever. I did not believe in that merger and think that the Santa Fe should have been kept indepentent... Tom W: Nice to see you like my proposed paint schemes. Sometime in October I'll have to see about a Atlas CB&Q caboose and some Intermountain covered hopers or boxcars.
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