I take it none of you have ever operated a unit with headlights vs noselights? In snow?
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Lord Atmo Amen. The headlights were fine where they were. Moving them was a stupid idea and a waste of money. Not to mention the BN units with dropped headlights look like they have nasty overbites....
Amen. The headlights were fine where they were. Moving them was a stupid idea and a waste of money. Not to mention the BN units with dropped headlights look like they have nasty overbites....
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I have lived a couple blocks from there main lines heading into chicago all my life and my dad is a Burlington Route/Great Northern nut so its kinda hard not to lol
I miss the BN commuter trains before metra started hauling them
SD60M wrote: Why cant BNSF just leave the predecessor units unpatched whats the big deal? Its a way to show the public how they came to be in the first place! This sucks i dont get to railfan as much i would wish especially by the BNSF. The only BNSF power i see around here is runthrough on the NS which isnt to bad except for all the pumpkins, but one day in 2006 i thought it was 1994 again i saw 3 BN SD70MAC's on the point of a coal train. Too bad i didnt have my camera but who knows i will hopefully be able to see an unpatched Mac before there all gone.
Why cant BNSF just leave the predecessor units unpatched whats the big deal? Its a way to show the public how they came to be in the first place! This sucks i dont get to railfan as much i would wish especially by the BNSF. The only BNSF power i see around here is runthrough on the NS which isnt to bad except for all the pumpkins, but one day in 2006 i thought it was 1994 again i saw 3 BN SD70MAC's on the point of a coal train. Too bad i didnt have my camera but who knows i will hopefully be able to see an unpatched Mac before there all gone.
Thankfully CN doesn't patch there units!
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well everyone says the same thing about UP and the patches. be thankful BNSF's don't ruin the look of the locomotive completely. they match the paint scheme. so one could argue that the patches were made like that to keep SOME heritage.
better hurry and catch those SD70MACs. they're being worked on as we speak. let's hope the headlights arent moved when they get patched
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I have a Thread on the LOCOMOTIVES section and the consensus is:
The High Mounted Headlights cause problems for the crews. Railroad management would rather have practical visibility for the crew than a superficially mounted headlight.
Get used to practical locomotive rebuilding.
Andrew
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