Kudos to BNSF for doing that. Now if only CSX would repaint some Chessies or Western Marylands.
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It looks great!
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Minnesota Nice!
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| Posted by Larz on December 21, 2007 | |
Wow, it looks wonderful! Hopefully there's plans to paint some Great Northerns in the Empire Builder scheme as well.
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Thats a heritage unit I can set my watch to! Looks beautiful!
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Very nice
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| Posted by on December 22, 2007 | |
This unit is not a BN and was painted for the MTM, not the BNSF. Its reporting marks are MNTX which were above the number-boards on a magnet during transit. The magnet has obviously been removed during this photo. The AEI tag and bluecard are MNTX 6234.
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Whomever this unit was painted for, an outstanding job was done.
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Very fitting that this heritage unit is an "old reliable" SD9. However, as previously stated, this unit was delivered to MTM as BNSF 6234 and was changed directly to MNTX. It was never changed back to the BN reporting mark, but we can continue dreaming. :-)
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| Posted by Batman on December 25, 2007 | |
This is NOT a BNSF heritage unit , it was restored for the Minnesota Transportation Museum , for their display only.
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Indeed, the railroad is doing all it can to eradicate it's heritage images, as it is no longer known as the Burlington Northern Santa Fe," but is now the BNSF Railroad. But thanks to the MTM's efforts and Ralph's spectacualr photo, this is one heck of a Christmas present!
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