Again I AM REASEARCHING the Burlington Northern and I wondered, were there BN FP45’s, and how did it get it’s name? Did the Burlington and the Great Northern merge? Please reply if you know.
I do believe Great Northern Became Burlington Northern, yes, as well as a bunch of other RRs.
Burlington Northern was formed in 1970 from the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Chicago Burlington & Quincy and the Spokane Portland & Seattle railroads.
In about 1980, the St Louis-San Francsico (Frisco) was merged into the BN.
If I remember correctly, the GN owned the SP&S and the GN and NP both owned part of the CB&Q. The merger finally put all the finances in one company.
BN owned no FP45s. Those 14 locomotives were originally owned by Santa Fe (9) and Milwaukee Road (5).
BN and its predecessor road Great Northern did own the similar F45. A total of 86 F45s were built. Santa Fe owned 40, Great Northern owned 14 and had 12 on order when it was merged in to BN. The BN itself ordered another 20 F45s and a total of 46 F45s ended up wearing BN Green.
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For “modern” passenger power BN inherited the six GN SDP40s and the eight GN SDP45s. These served on the BN passenger trains in the short time before Amtrak. After the advent of Amtrak these units went into freight service.
The FP45 is about three feet longer than the F45. This extra length is used to house the steam generator equipment at the back of the unit.
The FP 45 got its name from being a dual locomotive. It was a Freight /Passenger locomotive that had a steam generator for pulling the passenger cars