Me im a huge BN fan, i have been all my life and just wanted to know if anybody else is a fan.
LONG LIVE THE BURLINGTON NORTHERN!!!!
-SD60M
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SD60M wrote:Me im a huge BN fan, i have been all my life and just wanted to know if anybody else is a fan.LONG LIVE THE BURLINGTON NORTHERN!!!!-SD60M
Since the day they became BN. Back in the day the only way to have a BN loco, car or caboose was to paint it yourself.
Michael Click Here to view my photos at RailPictures.Net!
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Too new!!
Go back a decade or two to those beautiful black birds and I am a happy man.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
simon1966 wrote:Too new!!Go back a decade or two to those beautiful black birds and I am a happy man.
I understand. My father was a big Q fan and he had trouble accepting the merger, as I'm sure a lot of GN, NP, and SP&S fans did as well.
Im am also I big Burlington Northern fan and modeler. I guess what made me so interested was growing up near the BN main into Houston Texas. I used to watch the trains go by all the time and what an interesting assortment of motive power. From U30's, F45, SDP40, SD40-2,Geeps, and even the old F units too. Those were the days. My first BN locomotive was a birthday present and it was an Atlas HO BN GP38 and since then has grown to over 50+ units on my roster. My newest edition will be later this year which will be an Atlas U30C Bicentennial #1776 which I used to see all the time come and go on the main with the 2 other units 1876,1976. Now the line has changed to BNSF which still is interesting to see the trains go by and which is still a busy mainline.
Mark
P.S. What was your first Burlington Northern Locomotive?
I'm a big GN fan. Grew up in a small town in Minnesota and got to know the stationmaster. He talked the engineer of the local that went through twice a day to let me ride in the cab while he did switching duties - was an old Pacific as I recall. Man, did I love railroading back then.
the goat
Here are a few of photos I took of the BN in the early 70"s.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=46009
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=57512
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=45429
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=57003
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=48192
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=45084
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=45924
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=48062
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=56739
Great photos Michael. Where about were they taken. I love the one of #917 C&S, I have that unit now by Athearn. It was great to see the mixture of C&S and FWD BN units come through to Houston.
MOJAX wrote: Here are a few of photos I took of the BN in the early 70"s. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=44539 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=46009http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=57512http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=45429http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=57003http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=48192http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=45084http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=45924http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=48062http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=56739
I like those photos. The locos look odd with out the ditch lights. I also like the era they where taken in. I would like to model it in N scale, but don't have the space, time, room, and money. Plus I'm a WC guy.
fwdguy wrote: Great photos Michael. Where about were they taken. I love the one of #917 C&S, I have that unit now by Athearn. It was great to see the mixture of C&S and FWD BN units come through to Houston. Mark
The date is on the bottom right hand corner where there is the gray box with all the info.
Yours In Model Railroading,
John
Littleton, CO
fwdguy wrote:Great photos Michael. Where about were they taken. I love the one of #917 C&S, I have that unit now by Athearn. It was great to see the mixture of C&S and FWD BN units come through to Houston. Mark
Thanks for the compliment. Most were taken between Chicago and Aurora on the "race track".
C&S 917 is a favorite as I was able to cab ride it one evening from Clyde out to Aurora. Here is another shot of 917
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=49680
I have over 2000 shots of the BN but most need to be scanned, and uploaded. There are several more just click on my pictures link in my name.
I was looking around on railpictures.net and found a pre-merger scheam. I never knew there was one. I also never saw a white tiger stripe loco. Have any of you seen one?
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=169092
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=172767
Count me as a BN fan and modeler. Grew up going to see family in Galesburg.
jktrains
WCfan wrote:I was looking around on railpictures.net and found a pre-merger scheam. I never knew there was one. I also never saw a white tiger stripe loco. Have any of you seen one? http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=169092 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=172767
Several times as they were Q loco's painted for the up coming merger.
Since we are on the subject about BN. Would any of you happen to know if your local Hobby Shop has an Athearn Kit #5390? It is a BN wide vision caboose in the Executive paint scheme. They were discontinued by Horizon and I cannot find one anywhere. If a Hobby Shop has one I can call them and order it.
Thanks in advance for the help.
frisco1519
I just found one on EBAY after a very long search. These are hard to come by. If I see one again I will let you know. I searched the web with no luck and many LHS. Then one day it was on EBAY.
sfrailfan wrote:hey MOJAX,could you tell me a little more about this? Am I right in saying: the first image is pre-merger, the second photo is the orange saftey stripe scheme that I think was only applied to gp 50s for some reason. I tried this scheme on an SD 45 when I first learned to paint, but I don't think any of those had those stripes....
Yes on the first photo. If memory serves me the pre-paint was applied to 15 new SD45's direct from EMD and built in Jan/Feb of 1969. Q numbers 516-530 future BN 6457-6471. It is considered the last CB&Q paint scheme.
SD60M wrote:I here ya on that one here in Memphis BNSF has a very busy ex-BN line through here and a major yard and all i see is freakin GE pumpkins and whatever you want to call the new scheme. I miss the BN so much i see old BN units but they have all been patched which sucks!! We sometimes get the unpatched SD70MAC BN units through here nut not often but last year i saw a BNSF coal train with just unpatched BN SD70MAC's i thought it was 1994 for a moment that was a real treat, but i would really like to see some unpatched cascade green units oh well we can all dream!
Only Cascade Green I see here in Florida is the HLCX (Helm Leasing) units running on CSX.
MOJAX wrote: sfrailfan wrote:hey MOJAX,could you tell me a little more about this? Am I right in saying: the first image is pre-merger, the second photo is the orange saftey stripe scheme that I think was only applied to gp 50s for some reason. I tried this scheme on an SD 45 when I first learned to paint, but I don't think any of those had those stripes.... Yes on the first photo. If memory serves me the pre-paint was applied to 15 new SD45's direct from EMD and built in Jan/Feb of 1969. Q numbers 516-530 future BN 6457-6471. It is considered the last CB&Q paint scheme.
The CB&Q hockey stripe scheme was applied to new SD45 and U30C(?) and one GP40 that acutally received the BN herald before the merger. The hockey stripe scheme was later applied to passenger cars and E units.
This was a pre-merger paint scheme applied in anticipation of the 1970 merger. There also boxcars painted in Cascade Green with the Burlington name applied so that all that would be needed was adding 'Northern' underneath. The idea was later done with the Kodachrome scheme applied to ATSF and SP units in anticipation of that merger that never happened.
The tiger stripe scheme was applied to some GP50 and 1 SD40-2. It was an experiment to try and improve visibility at grade crossings. The experiment had one or two units with orange/white stripes. Most received orange/black stripes just on the nose. If I recall the SD40-2 had orange/white stripes applied to the nose and cab face. E units in commuter service in Chicago also received orange/white nose stripes. Testing of the nose stripes found an insignificant increase in visibility, but also found that the orange tended to fade over time.
At first I wasn't too hot on BN, as a Great Northern fan (who got to ride a GN passenger train just before the merger) I was saddened to see GN go. Eventually I started to like BN, the paintscheme kinda grew on me. By 1983 I had started making trips up to Northtown yards in Mpls to photograph GN SD-9's working the hump and began acquiring a few BN models.
BTW, BNSF still uses cabooses around Superior WI. I read and saw a pic recently that BN repainted the cabooses - as BN cabooses!! BN green, yellow handrails, BN (not BNSF) lettering. Pretty neat!!
fwdguy wrote: frisco1519I just found one on EBAY after a very long search. These are hard to come by. If I see one again I will let you know. I searched the web with no luck and many LHS. Then one day it was on EBAY.Mark
I do have a search on ebay for one of these and maybe someday it will show up. Thanks for the info.
George
When I was a Rochelle like a month or so ago, I saw 2 BN SD40-2s un-patched in the lead.(I can't get the photo in the computer. But believe me, I really saw it)A really nice sight! They also had the 2 diffrent paint scheams, the white nose, and the stripe. Plus(If any one cares because it's ATSF) I saw 2 yellow bonnets in the lead on another train. I also thought of this, the BN name is before the SF, does that mane BN is a bigger part in the merger?
WCfan wrote: SD60M wrote:I here ya on that one here in Memphis BNSF has a very busy ex-BN line through here and a major yard and all i see is freakin GE pumpkins and whatever you want to call the new scheme. I miss the BN so much i see old BN units but they have all been patched which sucks!! We sometimes get the unpatched SD70MAC BN units through here nut not often but last year i saw a BNSF coal train with just unpatched BN SD70MAC's i thought it was 1994 for a moment that was a real treat, but i would really like to see some unpatched cascade green units oh well we can all dream!When I was a Rochelle like a month or so ago, I saw 2 BN SD40-2s un-patched in the lead.(I can't get the photo in the computer. But believe me, I really saw it)A really nice sight! They also had the 2 diffrent paint scheams, the white nose, and the stripe. Plus(If any one cares because it's ATSF) I saw 2 yellow bonnets in the lead on another train. I also thought of this, the BN name is before the SF, does that mane BN is a bigger part in the merger?
According to the book Leaders Count, the Burlington Northern acquired the Santa Fe. A good portion of top management (BN) was put off because the combined company was going to be Burlington Northern Santa Fe instead of just Burlington Northern.
The pre-merger name of the Burlington Northern was: The Great Northern Pacific and Burlington Lines. I think that BNSF sure beats Burlington Fe or Santa Northern.