Well, BNSF is back at patching it's ex-BN cream and green SD70MACs. Former BN 9573 and 9684 are now patched with a small swoosh logo on the sides of the cab. BNSF must have run out of old-style cross and circle logos. It seemed that BNSF gave up on patching it's former BN MAC's, considering they are still more unpatched than patched BN cream and greens, especially in the 9600 series. Cheaper than repainting them into H3, though some of those post-merger SD70MAC's delivered new in H2 in the 9800 through 8900 series look like they need it. http://www.locophotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=65834 http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=842984
That don't look half bad ya know. Eventhough this isn't close to the BN it is still good looking. I will have to be on the look out for these.
I'd go along with the view that this isn't such a bad idea. A little better, to me, than the earlier patches.
Micro Scale has gotta love the BNSF! All the different colors, sizes and variations BNSF experiments with and us demanding modelers! I agree with most of you above, it looks good.
That's not a half-bad variation on the scheme! I like it better than the H3 black and orange version. Shame I'll likely not see any this far from coal country. Then again, the Highwood generating station will bring coal to the Great Falls area, and periodically bring BNSF coal motors to the diesel pit in town for fuel or servicing...
I must be the only one that's not a big fan. I mean it's OK, but I always thought that MACs wore that scheme terribly. Of course, the 60ms looked even worse. Now the Executive Fs, those looked good.
I am not a huge fan, either. I go by the BNSF Northwest Portland Yard all the time and what I see is a mish-mash of half-baked merger schemes. I do like the newer swoosh thing... that's not bad, and I could see it working well on a number of locos, but I do not understand why they don't hire a competent graphic designer to come up with a standard (or at least no more than two or three standard) paint schemes and just go with it. Punch is good, but trying to mix in GN inspired green and orange with serif font BNSF looking like stick-on letters under the cab like you'd get for a mailbox perhaps combined with something sort of like the old ATSF cross in a circle... it's just tiring to look at. For inspiration, pretty much every one of those pre-merger roads had visual clarity to their designs that weren't overly busy. Think the BN green and white. Think the Yellowbonnet or Warbonnet schemes. A lot of what I have seen recently seem to be schemes done by undergrad design students the night before the deadline... not bad, but not really a final draft fit for repainting a loco. I hope they figure out what they want to do, or else just "un-merge" and bring back all our old favorites. (Yeah... corporate merger decisions based only on foamer romanticism... that will happen.)
