Power you are talking about was Green Forest. You are correct
that Cascade had nothing to do at the time before merging.
GN got merging with Cascade new power. CB&Q got a few CB&Q
units in power and planned with passengers at the merger. It
was not pleased and the new Spokane power was used by the
new units to make photos. That power was left at West Burlington.
After new power some power was still on paper as Green Forest
before finally being built three or more months later and just
changed at the last minuet.
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: lyon_wonder
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 21 June, 2008 17:14
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Pre-Merger Green Equipment
I don't care for the oversized hockystick white and the really, really
small-size road numbers on the SD45s long hood. They should have made
the road numbers larger like those on BN locos. Now, if they had most
of the long hood painted green instead of white, and placed the
Burlington name with the same font and szie as on the chinese red
engines, it would have looked great!
PS: IMHO, the road that had the best looking BN-like rolling stock
painted just before the merger was Northern Pacific. NP kept putting
their logo on their pre-merger green boxcars and cabooses, unlike the
Q, which just had plain Burlington in a new-style font.
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, lyle dowell <slyone@...> wrote:
>
>
> > What else was painted in pre-merger green?
> >
>
> Locomotives --- all the U23Cs, all the SD45s as you noted, and a
> single GP40. Neat bit on the GP40 I recently learned. It was repainted
> in green about 1-1/2 years before the merger, but it had the BN logo
> applied. Still carried 'BURLINGTON' name on the electrical cabinet
> doors, but had the BN logo in place on the cab side well ahead of the
> merger. An additional note on the green .... it is NOT cascade green,
> but a lighter green that closely resembles John Deere green. There are
> some good pictures of these in the new BN in Color Vol 2 book from
> Morning Sun.
>
> Lyle Dowell
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