BNSF HERITAGE UNITS

To All:

If there is already another thread about this I apoligize in advance. I just got this picture of a brand new BNSF Heritage unit that was unveiled today in Ft. Worth. Another rumor site referred them as Gevo's. Bottom line, it seems like following UP's example and painting SD70Mac's in the 10 fallen flag lines (the site said 10) they have acquired over the years with the first one being the CB&Q. Here is the photo:

http://www.trainpix.com/BNSF/EMDORIG/SD70MAC/BNSG9980.HTM

I assume they will get the orange color correct and someday a model will follow. Wouldn't be something to get that parked in Pittsburg and/or Tulsa in September for the meets if it's done by then.

This is big as the Frisco will live on!

Bob Hoover
FriscoFriend

 

The person who posted the photo says the Frisco one will be Black & Yellow.

Bob Hoover
FriscoFriend

 

They say a picture is worth a thousand words and if I wouldn't have posted the picture everyone would have immediately brushed this off as an April Fool's joke! Unless someone's really good at Photoshop, it isn't a joke!

Bob Hoover
FriscoFriend

 

This may or may not be true as I may have fallen to the April 1st hex. These may be units (more than one) assigned to service around Ft. Worth, May the search for the truth begin!

Bob Hoover
FriscoFriend

 

Where ever that picture was taken either the trees green up a lot faster than around here or it was taken at a different time of year. After some of the post's that were put on the MKT an RS Yahoo groups this morning it looks like a hoax to me. However like Dennis Miller says "That's just my Opinion I could be wrong."
Bob Wintle
Friscofriend's friend

 

Most everyone on Trainorders.com seems to think it is a great April Fool's joke and I am inclined to believe that is a very good one indeed. It would be nice though.

Steve

 

I'm weighing in on the April Fools' side of things. It's just a tad too crisp.

BTW, what does "BNSG" stand for?

 

Beins this may be an April Fools Joke B. N. S. G. has to stand for Big Nothing Says, "Gotcha"|-||-||-|

 

Looking very closely at the photo with some photo editing software I have the entire top edged when zoomed in on does not match up, also there are some white areas where the photo did not get touched up near the rear of the loco.
I also just read on the RR Tulsa group that suppossedly BNSF says it is a Hoax.

 

Ahh, but it made us feel full of hope with all the possibilities. That is what April and Spring is all about when you get down to it!

Anyhow, HWB has already done a splendid job in his album:
http://www.frisco.org/vb/album.php?albumid=31&pictureid=253

I say we encourage his efforts and maybe generate a few of our own (but not so many as to clog up the Library).

George

 

I know a man that works in the main BNSF office in Ft. Worth who's an ex-Frisco guy from Springfield, MO. We've talked about them doing a heritage series, which HAS been hashed out at the main office, but it was deamed too expensive at this time.

This discusion took place about 3 months ago; so, I venture to say,"APRIL FOOLS?!"

 

Hi, I've looked over the photo. I'm in a Computer Aplications class in High school Photo Shop is one of my favorites. This one is quite hard though. Most interpixles line up. Though some of the colors on the underframes arent just right. I believe this is a Joke but I may be wrong.
Ship it on the Frisco!!!



Murphy Millican

 

That picture was a photoshopped fraud...posted by a kid over at the Train-sim dot com Forum & Library....Some people will do anything for attention. There was a few Heritage paint proposals put to BNSF....so far, only one actually ever got put onto an actual locomotive...BNSF heritage 771 (using a SLSF road number)..Unit wore the paint for quite some time, but wasn't ever assigned a BNSF road number..This pic was from late 2001..

 

What is this RR Tulsa group you speak of?

 

It is a Yahoo group. It is basically a place for Railfans in the Tulsa area.

 

The photo shown by Frankoburn is a fraud. The #771 became the BN #3061 and later wound up on the KCS as #4821 then #2970. In the summer of 1998, the former Frisco GP40-2's that went over to the KCS were operating still in BN green/black. For a time, they still had BN numbering but the BN logo was painted out and white KCS block letters applied under the cab windows.

The former #771 was no longer on the BN roster in 2001 (date of the heritage photo) since it went to the KCS in 1998. Also, photographs of it on the KCS show a flat metal plate installed where the nose Gyra-light use to be. The fraudulant photo shows a standard nose. There are no marker light plating in the photograph... someone did a little photo-shop work.
Steve Roberts