Can’t say that I like it either, that first picture looks very Photoshoped and I didn’t beleive it until I checked out their site. I think someone above put it perfectly…it looks like a toy rather than a piece of industrial equipment. Now I will just look even more forward to the odd Santa Fe’s that still roll through now and again.
“Bigger, Faster, Better, Designed for kids ages 3 to 8”
Adrianspeeder
Better yet, use the money used for the repaint to sponser a real good drag racer or NASCAR race team on the strips and tracks for some real advertizing among the up and comming users of freight and intermodal services. I can just see the dragsters now in the Freight Train II Class of top fuel dragsters. On the strip BNSF would be the All the Way vs. the NS Thoroughbread or the UP Winged Lightning vs. the CSX “T.” On the NASCAR circut all four of the big class ones having teams could be real feature of the tracks through out the country. Just imagine the exposure this would give the rail companies in the world of racing and the sponsorship of the industries that happen to or should be useing the railroads for their long haul transportation needs. Sounds crazy, but so did computers on the railroad 50 years ago.
It had to happen sooner or later and after looking at the scheme for an extended period of time I guess I’ll be in a minority but I like it. It sure is a big improvement over NS, CSX, CN and UP.
Soooo…just when did BNSF merge with NIKE ?
Yeah, except D&RGW did it with class.
There are still diesels out there roaming around in Santa Fe Blue Bonnet! This means that three BNSF schemes later, they still have locomotives which have not been repainted in 16 years at the least! Not that I’m complaining, since it looks better than any BNSF paint job.
In Montana two years ago, I saw a string of hopper cars still wearing GN and NP logos.
They reached their peak with Heritage II–I agree, if it’s fine don’t change it!
Anybody up for steam locomotive black, graphite, and soot [:)]?!
See you around the forums,
Daniel Parks
The new logo isnt that good and needs to go back to the drwing board and then the janitor needs to come through and “accedentally” throw it away
I think ill change my Licence Plate from BNSF to RAILFAN.
Thats a pretty good idea. And on this whiole subject I think there’re gonna be some pretty pissed off railfans, and we are the people who look at the trains. our opinion is the one that should count. I live near a BNSF joint line mostly used by SD70MAC’s so i hope they’re not the first ones to go!!
Living on the BNSF racetrack from Chicago, it is always a puzzle as to what motive power and color scheme you will see. This is what makes it a great RR to watch. Will the next loco be in one of the existing BNSF colors, a run thru with CSX , NS, UP, CN, or a leased unit?
Would you rather watch UP with continuous Armor Yellow? I did it one day and that was enough.
How many of you are going to go trackside to catch this new color scheme?
This is really ugly…but there’s hope. Remember when the vomit bonnette came out and there was a real negetive response to that scheme? Whell they improved on it.
As another thought, if they merge with the NS all they have to do is change the color of the ns in BNSF.
But what I think they should have done is paint it in black and white like the NS
Well,The BNSF does have their right to change their Logo if they want too,and for one thing,weather they do,I don’t care,I still like the BNSF Railway…No matter what[^].
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They sure as hell better not call it “HERTAGE III”. There’s no ATSF to it…I got a new slogan for them BNSF-We’ll screw up your paint scheme. I think it’s a cheap Rio Grande style lettering…yuck, yuck, YUCK! I saw Heritage 1 and 2 locomotives yesterday…I would have never thought I would wake up this morning and find those OUTDATED…even the heritage II!!! SHAME SHAME SHAME ON YOU BNSF!!!
Oh yeah…this can end up like the “vomit bonnet” for all I care…I had a vision of an SD40-2 in the new scheme…I almost had a heart attack!
Can anyone think any anything else as bad as that?Trains mag. should do a top 10 list of all time bad paint schemes i think it would be interesting to see some of them.
and did anyone notice how similar it is to the schneider national trucking logo it is?
Now that I went back to take another look…It doesn’t look to bad,Other than the nose looks dull&boring. Mabe if they put the RAILWAY under neath the BNSF I think it would look realy neat!
Let’s see…I got the top 5…
- BNSF Heritage III
- BNSF Vomit Bonnet
- PC Mating Worm
- SOO Line Pumpkin
- Any UP Patched Unit…
You Fini***he Rest
Well it sure looks like the BNSF sure got everyone in a good mood tonight.
Hang in there guys. Ten years from now it will be something else. A hundred years from now there will be a very lengthy topic as the next century’s railfans try to find out if BNSF stood for anything.