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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by oltmannd</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by dmoore74</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <br />BNSF is actually the amalgamation of three RR names: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific, and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, with some other mergers thrown in, I think. <br /> <br />440cuin <br />[/quote] <br />Actually Burlington Northern was an amalgation of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific, Great Northern and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle. <br />The original name proposed was Great Northern Pacific & Burlington. I'm sure all the sign painters would have loved that one. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />It's kinda funny how "Burlington" got top billing over Chicago and Quincy in CB&Q. Sort of like "Santa Fe", I suppose. Chicago is still THE RR city (at least for frt) - and nobody has it in their name, tho' we do have Burlington, Norfolk and Santa Fe represented.... <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />A good name change on the BNSF would be Chicago, Burlington & Everywhere West, or breaking the road down into 6 major regions and calling them the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, with a silver, red and yellow paint scheme, St. Louis-San Francisco with a red and white paint job, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy with the "Blackbird" paint, Great Northern in green and orange, Northern Pacific in black and yellow, and Spokane, Portland & Seattle in dark gray and yellow. <br /> <br /> The perfect railroad, albeit a little unpractical. THE BURLINGTON LIVES ON... <br /> <br />BTW, there used to be a joke when Chessie System and Seaboard/Family Lines first announced they were going to merged that the new line would be called the "Family Cat"[:D]
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