I’ve never had one, but yes Powerbar is an energy bar. Check out their logo at the link below. It makes it pretty easy to see why BNSF’s new logo is called the Powerbar by some people.
What a REALLY dumb thread…let’s move on, shall we?
When BNSFgoes plaid then I’ll start worrying about their paint schemes.
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Other than the new zig-zag (or “lightning stripe” – I don’t wanna offend anyone by using the wrong moniker) and the yellow frame stripe replacing the traditional red, the only major color scheme change on the UP was the very first one: from Armour Yellow & Chocolate to Armour Yellow & Harbor Mist Grey.
And thanks, Murphy Siding, for your valiant attempt at changing the subject. There’s entirely too much “trans-pubescent trauma” in this thread.
I can’t see why not. I mean the UP has had the same old “Boring” name for over a 150 years.
On a trivial note, the UP has been the “Union Pacific” but the full name has changed from ‘Railway’ to ‘Railroad’ to ‘Corporation’ over the years.
I remember reading in a book a book or several books that in 1897 the UP that built the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s finally collapsed and was bought and reorganized with the name only being changed from railway to railroad. A quick check at www.up.com confirmed this take over (http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/uprr-chr.shtml see ‘1897’).
If you look in Union Pacific Country by Athearn, Rober G. 1971
Pg 372
July 1, 1897 - new corporation organized as Union Pacific Railroad Company. A British company rumored to want to buy both UP and KP (Kansas Pacific). Sale of the old Union Pacific Railway, forclosure
Pg 373
February 1, 1898 - Union Pacific Railroad Company asumed function of Union Pacific Railway Company. Consisted of the road between Council Bluffs and Ogden. The KP came under UP control on April 1.
The Kansas Pacific merger into the UP was probably in partial, but not total, blame for the early UP’s demise. If anyone is familiar with railroad history in this era, one will know that Jay Gould did his best to promote his own interest and wreck any railroad that stood in his way (in other words every other railroad out there).
“JAY GOULD - made his fortune as a director of New York’s Erie Line by issuing $64 million in fradulent stock. In 1874 he took his boodle West, bought control of both the UP and KP, sold the KP at $10 million profit and used the money to establish a fabulously lucrative rail empire in the Southwest.”
-from The Railroaders, Wheeler, Keith - text, 1973, Pg 214
The UP collapsed under it’s own weight due to:
- mounting unpaid