Now your just gonna make me break out all the boxes of BN prints I have stored LOL. I want to upload these images, but I think the images suffer a bit thru scanning.
I wonder when was the last time a reader was able to download it's data? In the condition as pictured, surely that was a lot of miles back down the rails.
I model early era BNSF, so I'm trying to keep the Green Dream alive. I go out with some guys on the weekends here in Chicago, and see almost no patched locomotives. I saw an executive BN on a coal drag, but missed a Warbonnet on camera when a Metra pulled up right at the same time the train went by, but that is about it. Almost everything is some kind of ES44 or 70ace. I guess you have to enjoy them while you can, but it seems sad that railroad history is just being painted over. I just hope that some get saved in railroad museums.
Most likely not. We will need to buy these items ourselves, in order to preserve even a few. The Almighty Dollar versus history in America. Hmmm. Which is more important? Answer: Scrounging every penny possible! In the past, railroads valued public relations. Now the few mega-corporations, (which I wonder how they were allowed (kickbacks, bribes, etc, etc to courts, politicians and bureaucrats) to be created), don't care and do not need to do so. The quick buck is mightier than the long term investment. Although they do some donating, it is actually a wee portion of what could happen. It is no wonder so many look at railroads as being merely a nuisance. From their noise of horns, bells, etc, to getting in the way and a hiking/biking trail being more desired than a (property) tax paying entity which creates jobs..... *Sigh* It is a good thing this was not the way of life sixty years ago. Or we would have almost no preserved steam engines!
Found this on my phone from a year or two ago, BNSF can still put together a good Cascade Green set!!
Another oldie on my phone from about the same time, SB at Auburn Yard, probably "Crew 2" heading to Tacoma. 2336 in it's original paint!!
I know this has happened in the past, from being told by crews and roundhouse personnel. Strings of power like these have been deliberately done by someone at the RH. In other words, not an accidental situation.
Up here in the Northwest, or the old BN "Cascade Division", you still have a few old heads still running around, and proud of the heritage they're from.
