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QUOTE: Originally posted by Glen Ellyn Hi, I am Glen Ellyn. I have been on this site for sometime now, and just the forum thread. So, I have a question. Have any of you seen a bicentennial BNSF or UP engine? I have, but I didn't bring a camers the three times I saw those engines. So, if you have, is their a way to track one and where it goes.[8)]
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Glen Ellyn ok, I have seen #3020 of the Union Pacific 2 times, recently. (June, 2003:Feburary, 2004) I have also seen the BNSF bicentennial #1776, just during this summer.
QUOTE: Originally posted by MP57313 Even though BNSF was still ATSF and BN in '76, maybe they have painted an "after-the-fact" Bicentennial Engine? Meanwhile, years ago there was a "Hutchinson & Northern" (?) engine painted red white & blue at the Orange Empire Railway Museum years ago. Not sure if it's still there or in those colors
QUOTE: Originally posted by garr oskar, The CSX WL01 in Waycross is the former SCL 1776:1 or 1776:2. One was painted in bicentennial colors and the other wasn't, I am not sure which is which, but, if I remember correctly, the WL01 is the resulting rebuild of the non-bicentennial unit. Jay
QUOTE: Originally posted by Glen Ellyn 3300 is a bicentennial? I have been seeing #3300 hundreds of times, and that is a normal yellow UP. The one I have seen twice is #3020. I just want to see it up close and personla WITH A CAMERA!
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Glen Ellyn sorry for dubble posting. Their is something going on here. The bicentennial just passed through Rochelle at 5:15 PM and the date of October 28, 2004. First it is yesterday at 10:58 AM, now it is at 5:15 PM. If you add 10:58 to 5:15, wich is 4:13 in the morning. That is my prediction. Unless the Union Pacific just wants me to get ed of because they know I am not their directly to see the engine. Wich means it will be comming through where I live at 2:13 AM, and the next time would propably be 6:06 AM where I live. So it would propably get to Rochelle, not taking the fact that it may stop at the West Chicago yard, it would be my prediction that it would get at Rochelle at 8:06 AM. Ladies and gentleman, I am propably wrong, but I think I found the pattern. It is just that their is one thing puzzling me. Everytime I see the bicentenial, I have only seen it come from the east heading tword the west. So when does it turn around? seperate. Look at the picture of the train on the Union Pacific line. Look at the second engine. And on the second picture, look at the second picture. The first engine is a slug, second General Electric, third engine, Rio Grande, third, and fourth, I think the third is a bicential Burlington engine.
QUOTE: Originally posted by ericsp QUOTE: Originally posted by Glen Ellyn sorry for dubble posting. Their is something going on here. The bicentennial just passed through Rochelle at 5:15 PM and the date of October 28, 2004. First it is yesterday at 10:58 AM, now it is at 5:15 PM. If you add 10:58 to 5:15, wich is 4:13 in the morning. That is my prediction. Unless the Union Pacific just wants me to get ed of because they know I am not their directly to see the engine. Wich means it will be comming through where I live at 2:13 AM, and the next time would propably be 6:06 AM where I live. So it would propably get to Rochelle, not taking the fact that it may stop at the West Chicago yard, it would be my prediction that it would get at Rochelle at 8:06 AM. Ladies and gentleman, I am propably wrong, but I think I found the pattern. It is just that their is one thing puzzling me. Everytime I see the bicentenial, I have only seen it come from the east heading tword the west. So when does it turn around? seperate. Look at the picture of the train on the Union Pacific line. Look at the second engine. And on the second picture, look at the second picture. The first engine is a slug, second General Electric, third engine, Rio Grande, third, and fourth, I think the third is a bicential Burlington engine. It looks like you tried to up load pictures from you computer. I don't think you can to that (I can't see the pictures). I think you have to link to pictures already on the internet.
QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR Glen Ellyn, Just painting a locomotive red, white, and blue doesn't make it Bicentennial! UP 3300 was painted that way for the United Way, well after the 1976 celebrations were past. That's the unit you saw at Rochelle today (it's looking pretty ratty now).
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