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Heritage Units
Posted by keithh9824 on Friday, August 10, 2012 1:22 PM

I love the new heritage units by Norfolk Southern and the ones By Union Pacific the Iowa Interstate RR has the Rock Island Heritage see it alot since i live inb their area. I hope the BNSF will carry the torch someday to have some Heritage Units i think it would help their image

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Posted by Sunnyland on Saturday, August 25, 2012 2:09 PM

I agree and so do a lot of other railfans.  Andy Fletcher is a Facebook friend and he's making sketches of how the units could look. He's the one who designed the NS units.

I would love to see Frisco rolling on the rails again, even if it is just a heritage unit. 

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Posted by O5 Hopeful on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 12:27 AM

BNSF heritage would be nice to see.

Santa Fe- The old billboard or warbonnent scheme. The zebra scheme would be nice to see as well.

Burlington Northern- Cascade scheme. Hockey stick would be neat to see.

CB&Q- Chinese red or Everywhere West. One painted chrome would be amazing.

Great Northern- Empire Builder is the only option IMO

Northern Pacific- I don't know anything about the scheme besides a yellow stripe down the side.

SP&S- Black with a large yellow stripe down the middle.

Frisco- Orange & white, I prefer the original FR-F1 scheme. A meteor scheme would be great too.

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Posted by denveroutlaws06 on Sunday, March 17, 2013 3:37 PM

i asked BNSF directly about having heritage units and there said they wont have any.

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Posted by DavidH66 on Monday, March 18, 2013 11:26 AM

given how there's still a plethora of Sante Fe and BN patchout loco's out there, I can understand why. Also they did start a Heritage Railcar program recently

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Posted by Brian4449 on Monday, March 25, 2013 3:43 PM

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