Greetings,
I did a little casual rail fanning today and saw a Santa Fe diesel in the old blue and yellow paint scheme in a yard. I think it was a four axle road switcher of some type but I'm not for sure because I was doing the spying after dark =)
I also saw in the same yard a green SW-1500 switcher wearing the old green and black paint scheme that Burlington Northern used to have. This one was slightly modified by the deletion of the "Burlington Northern" script and logo being supplanted by a rather generic looking "BNSF" script in its place instead.
Anyway, I thought these old paint schemes were supposed to be long ago obsolete and re-painted over by now. Why is BNSF not repainting some of their fleet? And why are they painting over and changing the wording and logo on the old green Burlington Northern diesels while at the same time leaving alone the old blue and yellow "Santa Fe" scripts and paint schemes intact and in place?
And while were at it, what is this ugly "pumpkin paint scheme" the BNSF now sports called anyway? I call it the pumpkin paint scheme because that's what it looks like- pumpkin orange lower area with a pumkin green upper area...
I've also seen a separate weird dark puke forest green and off-white (ivory white color perhaps?) combo livery of some kind their using too... I don't know what that's all about..
Thank you
I did a little casual rail fanning today and saw a Santa Fe diesel in the old blue and yellow paint scheme in a yard. I think it was a four axle road switcher of some type but I'm not for sure because I was doing the spying after dark =)
I also saw in the same yard a green SW-1500 switcher wearing the old green and black paint scheme that Burlington Northern used to have. This one was slightly modified by the deletion of the "Burlington Northern" script and logo being supplanted by a rather generic looking "BNSF" script in its place instead.
Anyway, I thought these old paint schemes were supposed to be long ago obsolete and re-painted over by now. Why is BNSF not repainting some of their fleet? And why are they painting over and changing the wording and logo on the old green Burlington Northern diesels while at the same time leaving alone the old blue and yellow "Santa Fe" scripts and paint schemes intact and in place?
And while were at it, what is this ugly "pumpkin paint scheme" the BNSF now sports called anyway? I call it the pumpkin paint scheme because that's what it looks like- pumpkin orange lower area with a pumkin green upper area...
I've also seen a separate weird dark puke forest green and off-white (ivory white color perhaps?) combo livery of some kind their using too... I don't know what that's all about..
Thank you