Just ran across this while surfing. If you didn’t know better you’d think this was a modern day locomotive of the BNSF!
change that side lettering to BNSF and you’ve got it…that might be why it’s called heritage.
I DON’T THINK SO!
Well, those are Great Northern Y-1 electrics, pictured as seen in May of 1953, so it is more than a remote possibility!
those colors look awful familliar, BNSF railfan…
That picture is bringing back memories for me 
Dreaming . . … . . . . . … . .
That paint scheme looks an awful lot like the one I saw on a BNSF SD 40-2 yesterday.And also like the scheme I saw on a GN F7 in 1969.
It’s better than that “UGLY” yellow paint job!
“UGLY YELLOW”
Judy like wide ties on men, you had better believe that everything eventually comes back into style if you wait long enough.
I miss the MP,CNW,MKT,ETC.
Missouri Pacific was the best of all of them.
As you may recall, the first version of the Heritage 1 paint scheme was green and orange, period.
Mark Lynn, author of the book “Warbonnets” and, at that time, a Texas-based BNSF roadmaster, wrote BNSF CEO Rob Krebs and said the paint scheme lacked the yellow separating stripes, a la GN. Krebs read the letter aloud to several operating officials, agreed, and ordered the yellow stripes added.
I just got back from five days on Marias Pass where, in my opinion, the Heritage 1 paint scheme looks best…especially on the repainted SD40-2’s. If the ghosts of GN railroaders past still inhabit the rails at places like Spotted Robe, Grizzly, Ft. Piegan, Java East and Red Eagle, I’m sure they agree…
I agree,heritage 1 is far better than heritage 2.
Since I am only 21, I don’t remember the GN; and as such, I personally prefer the Heritage II. Heritage I is not bad, but I like the larger yellow stripes.
Ryan