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Paint jobs gone bad. The BNSF hasn't cared

a lot what paint jobs are still running around

18 years after the BNSF Merger. BNSF so far

has only cared about the paint schemes on

new orders of locomotives..H-1, H-2, BNSF

Swoosh. I've seen several Sante Fe "red

and silver" paint jobs that have turned to

"pink and silver". When I first saw BNSF 9478

I thought it was "leased unit". Paint was

"way-off" original. I found a shot of BNSF 9478

from a few years ago on rrpicturearchive.net

to see when "the paint failed" and this

photographer noted it 2 years ago.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2397622

So driving by Delta Yard I see the BNSF 9478 in a consist

of a coal train. It could look like this forever.



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BNSF (corporate) down Ft. Worthless way could care less what power runs around the GPNW, just as long as the trains they're pulling for shippers pony up and pay their bills on time!

Found an earlier pic of the same unit taken when 9478 was in the original off-white, and Cascade green... Photographed by Lake Tower in Springfield, MO. She had that first "roundel" BNSF thing on her nose, leading an original BN 70-MAC (The post merger roundel was pretty neat!)

                180px-BNSF_logo_2.jpgpictures_1389_9478.jpg

 



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I read somewhere where BNSF is going to dedicate all
"BNSF patched" SD70 Macs into oil-train service. All
these BNSF units have been hauling 20K ton coal trains
every day for close to 20 yrs. This power has joined
the "little-bit-less" dependable fleet that is not likely
to be running the "Z-trains". The more things change the
more they stay the same. Send all the locomotives that
are going to die here to the GPNW. I've been
photographing units running well after their time seems
all my life.

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The Krink wrote:

This power has joined
the "little-bit-less" dependable fleet that is not likely
to be running the "Z-trains".

Send all the locomotives that
are going to die here to the GPNW.


 You mean things haven't changed since they fired Uke?



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No Snippy. It just makes railfanning more worthwhile
with a chance of seeing "something old". What's
new isnt exactly "cutting it" these daze.

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Nice to know the PNW isn't just where Uncle Pete sends power to die.

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There was a time there in the late 80's early 90's when GM had a hard time with paint.

They had just started using the electricstatic primer where the car was a positive charge and the paint negatively charged

so (it was theorized) it would stick together better and they could offer a rust thru guarantee without breaking the company.

The primer stuck good, real good. The problem was that the finish color paint wouldn't stick to the primer.

I remember seeing a lot of vehicles so afflicted, I had a GMC s-10 pickup that the dark blue wouldn't stick and it

peeled off and looked like hell. They painted the roof 3 times, then they took it in and sanded it down to bare metal, reprimed

it and then sprayed on the dark blue. It stuck real good after that and was still looking good when I traded it in on a new truck 5

years later.



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This would explain the abundance of Chev pick ups and S10's I saw with patchy paint back in the 90's


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Best thing that ever happened to a SD70AC in the Pacific Northwest.

 

http://youtu.be/yy9aEw9SkT0



-- Edited by Calvin on Tuesday 24th of December 2013 08:45:47 PM

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