I Saw a "Rare" Diesel

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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In the August 2005 issue of TRAINS they show a picture of BNSF ES44DC number 7695. The headline was “Another BNSF ‘one of a kind?’” Then it says:

“Behold what might be a one-of-a-kind livery on BNSF, ES44DC number 7695, with the new emblem but yellow letters…BNSF chose a version with black letters.”

Then I just remembered something. I saw an ES44DC with the yellow emblem on it!! It was in Wyaconda, Missouri. The gates went down at the road A crossing, and the intermodal came through, with the third unit being Heritage III ES44DC number 7695! I can’t believe that I actually saw a diesel with a one of a kind paint scheme. And, this was the first time I EVER saw the new BNSF logo on the engines too! Below are a couple pics of the unit. Yep, I just happened to have my video camrea along that day![:D][:D]

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Very nice catch!

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RARE ??? I thought you were going to suprise me with a baldwin or something !

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The locomotive isn’t rare, but the paint scheme is. Its the only ES44DC to receive yellow lettering with black outlines. BNSF chose to stick with the original black lettering/yellow outlines.

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Consider this…if you see this same unit in 25 years or so and it still sports the same paint scheme as it does today…THAT WILL BE RARE!

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A Baldwin in that paint sceme would be rare !

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Not rare, but mentioned in the same issue…BNSF 7687…
go to
http://165.91.110.43/trains/NewBNSF/PTRA.htm

to see it up close, just hours before we backed it onto the train /reactor it hauled.

And try
http://perroux.us/pages/reactor.html
for a lot more photos of the move, from start to finish!

Ed

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Still waiting for the next one!

(Tow it around with a Baldwin DT 6-6-2000 and Randy & I will be there with bells on!)[:D]

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You and Randy won’t be the only ones!

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If we get our hands on a Baldwin, any Baldwin, what makes you think we will ever let it leave the Port?
That rascal will be on the “lost list” forever!

Ed[:D]

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We at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum have the last Baldwin S12 ever built. It was built for Erie Mining #403. It currently sits in the BNSF’s Rices Point Yard in Duluth.

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  • bought new from Baldwin as #403
  • renumbered 7243
  • acquired by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, currently stored at the Rice’s Point yard, Duluth MN
    Also was the last standard line locomotive shipped from Eddystone. Completed in Dec. 1955 but withheld at Eddystone to be used as a generator for testing the New Haven RP-210. It was shipped to EMCo Oct. 1956, hence b/d 10/1956.
    Info from The Baldwin Diesel Zone
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Now thats a rare engine !!!

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[:D][#ditto][8D]