I was out railfanning today and to my pleasent surprise…I saw BNSF 9297, still in its expiermental paint scheme sitting in Metro East Industries.
MEI has a paint booth, so could this mean that the 9297 is going to be repainted?
I HOPE NOT!
I also saw a United States Army GP7 teamed up with EMLX 8500
What is the ‘exparimental’ paint sceme? I’ll look on railroadpictures.net, and try to find a photo.
Thanks for sharing.
Phil
Found a photo, and I would have to say it is one of the most unusual paint scemes I have ever seen.
Phil
Can you post a link to the photo?
so i’ll be the one to say it… i like that one way more than the current BNSF paint. maybe it’s just the photo quality (or lack thereof) but the more red color of the stripe looks better w/the green. a little christmas-ey but a nice paint job.
Anybody know the current status of the “vomit bonnet”? I’d think that one would be painted before the rather nice-looking 9297…
I can not wait to see every single BNSF Locomotive in the new H3 Scheme.
9297 was the first “post merger” unit I saw. I was watching at Eola one day and saw a train coming westbound with a very strange looking unit in the lead…it was 9297…as wow was I ever excited. I have only seen her once or twice since then (which I believe was about ten years ago). I hope they never re-paint her but that may be way too much to hope for.
I saw 9297 with 7756 on an Auto train in the fall this year. She looked good next to an H3.
I would think BNSF would want to repaint this unit since it was only a test paint scheme. Each side of the engine has different stripes(sp they didn’t have to repaint 2 engines for testing).
i hope so that is one ugly loco, well anything in the orange scheme is ugly!!! What BNSF really stands for is Been nothin since Fe as in santa fe man, the one and only true railraod, the BNSF Sucks
That’s too bad for you, while most people love the BNSF your sitting around hating them,…do you not realize that BNSF is Santa Fe, what do you think happened to the ATSF employees?
Personally, I hope that BNSF paints over anything ATSF. They’ve done a good job on the railcars, now it’s time for the locomotives, come to think of it just about every Santa Fe engine has been patched while there’s still quite a few BN’s without patches.
I think that 9297 will be emerging in the “nike” scheme (A/K/A H3) before too long.
Still in the current paint. I want to see it soon before it gets into the Nike Paint.
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oh boy…not again
Cool down BNSFrailfan, everyone is entitled to their own opinion…
Hey Allan, Why don’t you take you whiney God curseing post and kick rocks. Posts like this make me want to do some whineing myself…to Bergie. Grow up.
BNSFrailfan,I guess when you posted that,you wanted to jeopardize this
forum for all the rest of us that do enjoy certain things?
BNSFrailfan, you don’t need to get so protective of BNSF. I mean I like BNSF alot but I don’t blow up in someones face for just say BNSF sucks. If you have something to say say it calmly.
You know he has an e-mail too, so at least we don’t get to read this crap.
well now isnt that a kodak moment[:D][:D][:D][:D][(-D][(-D]
wouldn’t that be kinda dull EVERY BNSF IN H3 who knows H4 might be around the corner. Do you have any web sites saying this is true until I see it I will belive it.
kevin