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
I’m kind of a BN fan. I like the paint scheam and the treain they ran through. I also like there locomotives.
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.
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.
MOJAX, I’ll let you into a secret. I knew nothing about the merger. I got a Burlington Route loco because I really liked the color scheme and thought it was from New England. It was only some months later that I discoverd that it had nothing to do with Vermont[D)] So no sentimentality from me I just really like the Blackbird scheme and the silver passenger trains from the Q era. I knew so little about the hobby when I got into it that for some while I thought American’s did not model trains because all my Google searches for “Model Railways” came up with no US hits. Growing up in the UK I never used the term Railroad, so I had no idea!!
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
Hey All,
I am also a huge BN fan! Even though my screen name is SFrailfan… (I do the BNSF merger too) most of my roster is green and black BN diesels. I also have SF and BNSF.
I get a lot of heat from some of the clubmembers who insist on modeling whats local (like NS or CSX). I don’t know why that is. We have 2 UP fans in our club as well.
I agree with fwdguy. One of the great things about modeling BN is the range of diesels they had. I don’t limit my timeframe for this reason. I just got another SD 70M in executive colors. Kato. In HO scale.
Thanks for the read!
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=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
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
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.
The date is on the bottom right hand corner where there is the gray box with all the info.
I am an old CB&Q fan due to my grandpa working for them 40+ years. He was a boiler maker in the steam days. At the end of steam, he became a stationary boiler engineer and ran the Denver powerhouse at the Burlington yards. I have fond memories visiting Grandpa on Sunday afternoons at the powerhouse.
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?
Count me as a BN fan and modeler. Grew up going to see family in Galesburg.
jktrains
Several times as they were Q loco’s painted for the up coming merger.
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…
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.