Well, it looks like the first of the former BN SD60Ms has been repainted with the new logo.
Looks pretty…ish
I can hardly wait to see a photo of a BNSF “New Image” Unit with a UP “Heritage” Unit.
They have the matching silver underframes.
Andrew
SWEEEEEEEEEEET! I LIKE IT. I LIKE IT. [:P]
Not bad, still to me it’s sad that the Santa Fe styling is gone forever…
Even though orange is the national colour of my country, the Netherlands, it is too much on a locomotive this size for my taste.
greetings,
Marc Immeker
I, for one, am looking forward to seeing a “swoosh logo” GP9 or SD9
Pumkin Power? Potential Halloween decoration? Needs a gap toothed smile on the nose…maybe a witch on a broomstick logo…
I CAN’T WAIT TILL ALL OF BNSF ENGINES HAVE THE ‘NEW IMAGE’ LOGO.
That’s not happening… or will happen in the next 50 years. Its going to take a VERY long time for every BNSF to get painted.
kevin
This is what I consider one of the best uses for the “new” BNSF paint scheme…it looks really good on an SD9 and I think the “swoosh” will look just as good or perhaps even better.
What they really need to do:
- get rid of the silly yellow stripes!
- put a canted red rectangle on the side of the cab… [}:)]
Reletter it to read Great Northern, and you might be on to something there.[;)]
Looks good to me! I’ve seen the new paint scheme on a rebuilt GP38-2 as well, so this unit will probably be through my area soon. I can’t wait!
I HOPE they don’t re-paint the “Great Pumpkin” SD60M, though.
Here’s a combination for you:
Zito yellow and BNSF orange!
With that paint scheme it makes the number boards look out of place. Just like NS’s paint made CR’s number boards look out of place. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=158662
Yuck!
] Somehow the current BNSF paint scheme doesn’t appeal to me. Every other BNSF paint scheme that I have seen over the years is a lot better than this. Why can’t BNSF leave well enough alone??
CANADIANPACIFIC2816
no paint scheme can make something already beyond ugly look good. granted BNSF’s new scheme is pretty neat, SD60Mu’s are not. EMD killed one of their best looking locomotives to introduce that cab… should have waited till the SD70 series…lord…
Well, not all, considering they made SD60’s and SD70’s standard cab also.
If your’e talking about the 3 piece window wide-cab in the early SD60M’s, yes they didn’t look asthetically pleasing. Later SD60M’s built in 1991, from BN 9250 and up, have the same 2 piece teardrop windows as the SD70M/MACs, which looked a lot better than EMD’s current SD70M-2/ACE’s utilitarian cab.