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Posted by chefjavier on Sunday, February 10, 2008 8:29 PM
 YoHo1975 wrote:

They aren't going back to it, that unit was just never repainted. It looks so clean, because it's well taken care of.

 

And How can you call that boring? 

My opinion, when the color scheme came out.  It made the company to a clean look but they forget their true colors. I mean the Warbonet... Everyone knows the Santa Fe with the Classical style.. Captain [4:-)]

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Posted by YoHo1975 on Sunday, February 10, 2008 12:28 PM

I guess that depends on your definition of boring.

Still, we've got PHL for that.

 

The work-a-day blues, an awesome description that I'ma gonna steal, just looks right around southern california, it looked right in Chicago, even when living in Oregon, it stoodout without being garish.

The BNSF Heritage schemes just don't look good down here in the desert. The yellow on H2 is too much combined with the orange and the bad GE paint is just depressing. 

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Sunday, February 10, 2008 6:42 AM

The current colors on BNSF 1374 may not be boring, but it might look a lot less boring in its original zebra stripes.

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Posted by Flint Hills Tex on Sunday, February 10, 2008 6:23 AM
I have always loved Santa Fe's "workday blues", and appreciated that they kept the Warbonnet design in their freight color scheme. It sure beats the pumpkin orange of today!
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Posted by YoHo1975 on Saturday, February 9, 2008 11:46 PM

They aren't going back to it, that unit was just never repainted. It looks so clean, because it's well taken care of.

 

And How can you call that boring? 

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BNSF
Posted by chefjavier on Saturday, February 9, 2008 5:07 PM

http://www.locophotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=18954

Are they going back to this colors? I think is boring..Dunce [D)]

Javier

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