70's BN Question

Classic Trains General Discussion
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When did the Burlington Northern start painting the top of the short hood on their diesels black?

Black hood

Green hood

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=49680

Thanks everyone!

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Maybe the question should be, “did BN really paint the short nose hoods black??” This wouldn’t be the first time a model rr manufacturer made a mistake on a diesel paint scheme. Certainly looks like the Colorado & Southern lead unit doesn’t have a black panel on top of the short hood in the pic you put in a link to. Could be they originally used green and added the black panels in the eighties…at least, sometime before they added the orange in the nineties.

3

I’m guessing that the black on the short hood was some type of anti-glare solution. I have found a photo of a U30C taken in 1980 that had the black short hood. There are many photos of green short hood units all the way into the early 90’s.

4

Actually, I belive it was grip tape stuff,so when crewmembers were working on stuff, they would not slip.

5

Makes sense being some type of no slip product. Any idea when they started using the stuff?