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Lord Atmo
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Posted by Lord Atmo on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:02 PM
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How about Burlington Norfolk as BN, they would already own that reporting mark.


oooo i have an idea how that would look nice. take BN's logo and expand the left side of the B into that white "swoosh" with the horse that NS had. it'd look so great. but then the ATSF heritage would be lost. oh well. i guess they'll just have to bring back elements of the H2 or H1 paint schemes!

Your friendly neighborhood CNW fan.

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Posted by Datafever on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 6:06 PM
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Or they could call it the Norfolk Pacific.  I think that BN still owns that reporting mark (NP) too.  I'd love to see NP's old symbol come back.

How about NOrfolkSouthErnPacifIC...OR NOSEPIC for short? UggggghhhhhhhhMischief [:-,] Sorry about that...and at dinner time no less!


Throw a T in there and you'll have something (NOSEPTIC) Laugh [(-D]
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eolafan
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Posted by eolafan on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 5:52 PM

 Datafever wrote:
Or they could call it the Norfolk Pacific.  I think that BN still owns that reporting mark (NP) too.  I'd love to see NP's old symbol come back.

How about NOrfolkSouthErnPacifIC...OR NOSEPIC for short? UggggghhhhhhhhMischief [:-,] Sorry about that...and at dinner time no less!

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Datafever
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Posted by Datafever on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:43 PM
Or they could call it the Norfolk Pacific.  I think that BN still owns that reporting mark (NP) too.  I'd love to see NP's old symbol come back.
"I'm sittin' in a railway station, Got a ticket for my destination..."
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Posted by SALfan on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:32 PM
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You could call it Burlington Southern Transportation, reporting marks BUST.

The logo for that could be great.  There are some pairs I'd nominate . . . .

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Posted by TH&B on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:05 PM
How about Burlington Norfolk as BN, they would already own that reporting mark.
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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:05 PM

I missed this when it was first posted and then over the weekend. 

CBQ - sigh - you just can't beat those old colors.  And on the side should be CBQBNSFNSM!

Moo....

She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw

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Posted by tuscanred on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:47 PM
As a old PRR/PC/CR/CSX man I suggest the Burlington Southern with the reporting marks of "BS", it fits so well.....
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Posted by rrnut282 on Sunday, October 29, 2006 8:19 PM
Now that corporate logo would combine two of my favorite things.Evil [}:)]
Mike (2-8-2)
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Posted by CrazyDelmar on Sunday, October 29, 2006 8:17 PM
 CShaveRR wrote:
 CrazyDelmar wrote:
 cr6479 wrote:
 CrazyDelmar wrote:

yeah and the reporting mark are excellent.....

 

 

BSRR

BSRR??? Another railroad has this reporting makings Buffalo Southern railroad.

Then how about just BS!

 

Sorry, that would be the Birmingham Southern.

You could call it Burlington Southern Transportation, reporting marks BUST.

 

GGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

that makes me wonder how many reporting marks are left?!?!

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CShaveRR
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Posted by CShaveRR on Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:50 PM
 CrazyDelmar wrote:
 cr6479 wrote:
 CrazyDelmar wrote:

yeah and the reporting mark are excellent.....

 

 

BSRR

BSRR??? Another railroad has this reporting makings Buffalo Southern railroad.

Then how about just BS!

 

Sorry, that would be the Birmingham Southern.

You could call it Burlington Southern Transportation, reporting marks BUST.

Carl

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CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)

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CrazyDelmar
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Posted by CrazyDelmar on Sunday, October 29, 2006 12:23 PM
 cr6479 wrote:
 CrazyDelmar wrote:

yeah and the reporting mark are excellent.....

 

 

BSRR

BSRR??? Another railroad has this reporting makings Buffalo Southern railroad.

Then how about just BS!

 

CRAZY DELMAR Coming back.
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UPTRAIN
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Posted by UPTRAIN on Sunday, October 29, 2006 12:20 PM
Buy Norfolk Southern Fast

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eolafan
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Posted by eolafan on Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:04 AM

 Harry_Runyon wrote:
The new railroad should be called "Northern Southern".

If this hypothetical merger were to ever REALLY happen then perhaps the best (and most geographically descriptive) name would be "BURLINGTON NORTHER SOUTHERN EASTERN & WESTERN". (No, the coloring of the words in the name were not randomly chosen, think about it)

Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim)
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:05 AM
The new railroad should be called "Northern Southern".
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cr6479
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Posted by cr6479 on Saturday, October 28, 2006 9:26 PM
 CrazyDelmar wrote:

yeah and the reporting mark are excellent.....

 

 

BSRR

BSRR??? Another railroad has this reporting makings Buffalo Southern railroad.

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cr6479
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Posted by cr6479 on Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:40 PM
How about Norfolk Western they also used black paint.
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JSGreen
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Posted by JSGreen on Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:57 PM
Seems like they may have had this in the works all along...

BNSF

Big Smile [:D]
...I may have a one track mind, but at least it's not Narrow (gauge) Wink.....
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CrazyDelmar
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Posted by CrazyDelmar on Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:48 PM

yeah and the reporting mark are excellent.....

 

 

BSRR

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Posted by wallyworld on Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:46 PM
Burlington Southern..I like it's simplicity

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

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JSGreen
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Posted by JSGreen on Saturday, October 28, 2006 9:42 AM
Ya dont suppose they would simplify it even further, and just name it Burlington Southern, do you?

Think of how much money they would save on the simplified paint scheme. 

They could enter the cattle shipping market once again, claiming to be the best
Bull Shippers in the Nation...Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

...I may have a one track mind, but at least it's not Narrow (gauge) Wink.....
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CShaveRR
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Posted by CShaveRR on Friday, October 27, 2006 8:48 PM

Actually, Lyon, that's not a bad idea for a "retro" paint scheme. 

And instead of "Everywhere West" it could just say "Everywhere"!

Carl

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caldreamer
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Posted by caldreamer on Friday, October 27, 2006 7:43 PM
NO, NO. .NS buys UP and it disappears into the fog of nite (Nach und nabel)!!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 27, 2006 6:52 PM
 UPTRAIN wrote:

 BNSFrailfan wrote:
No just do what the UP did. One Hertage unit. One Railroad of it's own.

One SLSF.
...
One Frisco. And so on.

Just to let ya know...that's the same railroad.

 

Besides...there is already a BNSF-NS Merger Scheme that a friend of mine made...

http://www.ikemeyer.com/pm/images/bns.jpg

Oh. Sorry. Oops.
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UPTRAIN
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Posted by UPTRAIN on Friday, October 27, 2006 6:43 PM

 BNSFrailfan wrote:
No just do what the UP did. One Hertage unit. One Railroad of it's own.

One SLSF.
...
One Frisco. And so on.

Just to let ya know...that's the same railroad.

 

Besides...there is already a BNSF-NS Merger Scheme that a friend of mine made...

http://www.ikemeyer.com/pm/images/bns.jpg

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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 27, 2006 6:05 PM
No just do what the UP did. One Hertage unit. One Railroad of it's own.
One ATSF.
One BN.
One GN.
One Santa Fe.
One Burlington.
One Frisco. And so on.
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Posted by wjstix on Friday, October 27, 2006 4:55 PM
Well a "Norfolk Pacific" paintscheme in black could also be based on the black and gold Northern Pacific freight scheme - including the monad of course !!
Stix
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Posted by Murphy Siding on Friday, October 27, 2006 4:12 PM

 PBenham wrote:
Limitedclear has it right. But, it will depend on whose management survives. If it turns out to be NS (unlikely, to me) then it'll be basic black for the power. But, Norfolk Pacific would revive a classic reporting mark: Northern Pacific's NP Henri Villard would smile at that development. M. Villard's name has also been spelled Henry, but I chose the French spelling.

     If it turned out to be UP on top, the name would probably be Union Pacific, and the locomotives would be yellow.Wink [;)]

Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.

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Posted by PBenham on Friday, October 27, 2006 3:37 PM
Limitedclear has it right. But, it will depend on whose management survives. If it turns out to be NS (unlikely, to me) then it'll be basic black for the power.
But, Norfolk Pacific would revive a classic reporting mark: Northern Pacific's NP Henri Villard would smile at that development.
M. Villard's name has also been spelled Henry, but I chose the French spelling.
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