Western Railroad Discussion > Can You Name All of the Different BNSF Paint Schemes?

Just last night in a response to kwo's thread down below ( http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1048539 ), I realized just how many "owned" paint schemes the BNSF has used on its locomotives over the last ten years of existence. So far I have come up with the following (sure to be updated later with your help!):


somewhat standard BNSF schemes (13):

- BNSF with NEW italic black New "Swoosh/Wedgie/PowerBarF" Logo (H2 stripes, silver trucks)
- BNSF H1 New "Swoosh/Wedgie/PowerBarF" Logo (H1 stripes)
- BNSF H2 green/orange (thick cigar style yellow stripes, silver trucks w/ slightly different nose logos and nose paint variations)
- BNSF H1 green/orange (thin yellow stripes)
- BNSF Yellowbonnet patches
- BNSF Warbonnet ATSF renumbers (various nose cigar band and hood lettering: "Santa Fe" or "BNSF" small and large)
- BN Executive (cream and forest green w/ thin red stripes w/ BN logo)
- BNSF Executive (cream and forest green w/ thin red stripes w/BN and BNSF logos)
- BN Whiteface w/ Cascade Green (varies between dashed or solid white sill lines)
- BN Whiteface w/ Cascade green and white pinstripes on hood (varies between dashed or solid white sill lines)
- BN Cascade Green
- ATSF Warbonnet
- ATSF Yellowbonnet



then there are those delightful bunch of BNSF oddballs (13+):

- BNSF with NEW italic yellow New "Swoosh/Wedgie/PowerBarF" Logo (H2 stripes, silver trucks) - BNSF7695 only
- BNSF "Kodachrome" patches - BNSF number over SPSF red/yellow/black paint (C30-7's BNSF 5176, 5182, 5184, 5189, 5193)
- BNSF "pill" BN Whiteface w/ heritage white BNSF logo on green nose (BN 2911, 2931 http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,948358 )
- BNSF ex-BN/Metro North blue/red/silver B23-7's (patched as BNSF 4200, 4201, 4202)
- ATSF Classic "Pinstripe" blue and yellow (on one survivor "Beep" SWBLW http://atsf.railfan.net/beep/sf1460ekimmel.jpg )
- BNSF 4800 9-44CW's delivered in "simplified" H2 minus yellow cigar bands, nose heritage logo or long hood "BNSF" lettering
- BNSF all primer grey BNSF 700 series 9-44CW's (five delivered from GE this way: BNSF 776, 789-792)
- BNSF "Vommitbonnet" BNSF 9647
- BNSF "Guinea pig" BNSF 9297 scheme (orange and forest green w/ blue/red stripes, two versions of paint on either side)
- BNSF Yellowbonnet with BNSF nose herald and hood lettering (GP30U BNSF 2472)
- BN diagonal whiteface GP38-2 BN 2100 http://archive.trainpix.com/BN/EMDORIG/GP38-2/2100E.HTM
- BN Whiteface w/ Cascade green and large "BN" nose logo ( http://archive.trainpix.com/BN/EMDORIG/SD40-2/7812B.HTM )
- BN Whiteface w/ Cascade green and diagonal nose stripes (BN 6318)



I know there are some more BNSF oddballs out there, just need some time to think about them. Think I am missing a special paint BNSF H1 GP38-2 with silver trucks right? Can ya all help with the list?!?


-Ryan aka "espeeboy"
(a closet oddball BNSF paint scheme fan)
on the ex-WP Oakland Sub MP11.2

In 2000, BNSF had 57 different variations of paint schemes.

I have a slide of a C30-7 with the BN on the nose but not whiteface, no other alteration. I think there is a EMD SD40-2 with it too.
I didn't see it on this list, but maybe I missed it.

Also, if you want to split hairs, BN 9400, the first 70MAC, had stainless steel rails.

espeeboy Wrote:
> - BNSF with NEW italic yellow New
> "Swoosh/Wedgie/PowerBarF" Logo (H2 stripes, silver
> trucks) - BNSF7695 only

Caught in early Oct, on the Seligman Sub

http://www.trainweb.org/brettrw/bnsf/seligmansub/crookton/bnsf7695.html

Brett

BN w/Tigerstripe face, Cascade green cab and hoods.

SD40-2 #8070 - standard BN green paint with round BNSF nose logo instead of stripes and smaller than normal "BNSF" patched on cab side.

SD40-2 #6364 and SD60M #9226- patched from BN whiteface scheme with no "BN" on nose.

There is a SD-40-2 in H1 with the circle herald on the nose. And the H1 with new bnsf logo.

GoldenState Wrote:
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> BN w/Tigerstripe face, Cascade green cab and
> hoods.

Dang, that was the one I thought of....

Do the OLS ones count? Here's an excellent illustration:
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1048773,1048773#msg-1048773

since you're including oddballs, there was the 2 units rebuilt for LNG use
that had a lighter shade of green and white. At least one still exists this
way, in the HLCX lease fleet (although it was converted back to diesel only).
Also, the 4 SD60MAC's 9500-9503 had their own paint scheme.

csxt4617 Wrote:
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> since you're including oddballs, there was the 2
> units rebuilt for LNG use
> that had a lighter shade of green and white. At
> least one still exists this
> way, in the HLCX lease fleet (although it was
> converted back to diesel only).
> Also, the 4 SD60MAC's 9500-9503 had their own
> paint scheme.

I know that the 60MAC's never made it to BNSF.

-Justin

Ugly

Uglier

Ugliest

Butt Ugly

Foogley

And whatever comes of a BNSF/ NS Merger!

SOB

> GoldenState Wrote:

> > BN w/Tigerstripe face, Cascade green cab and
> > hoods.

I'm pretty sure all the tigerstripes had been repainted whiteface by the time of the BNSF merger.

There were a couple of oddballs within the Dash 9 "simplified H2" catagory. They had the cigar band on the front and the circular emblem on the rear, but that was it - no striping, and no big BNSF on the side. My recollection is that they were in the 4870's.

There was a blue and yellow version of the "pill" relettering scheme too, GP35 2529. See: http://www.qstation.org/2529/2529.html.

The GP38-2 with silver trucks, the first standard cab orange and green repaint, was BNSF 2099. http://www.qstation.org/2099/2099.html

Do B-unit schemes get separate mention? Santa Fe's blue and yellow B-unit scheme was sort of the pinstripe scheme without the pinstripe; the SD45B's and SD45-2B's wore it. Then there's the GP60B red and silver un-warbonnet, and the H1 variation worn by the GP60B's and at least one GP9B. And then there's SD40-2B 7501, where the upper green band stops abruptly where the cab *should* be.

And then there's the misfortune visited upon BNSF 8627...

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bnsfjth Wrote:
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> csxt4617 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > since you're including oddballs, there was
> the 2
> > units rebuilt for LNG use
> > that had a lighter shade of green and white.
> At
> > least one still exists this
> > way, in the HLCX lease fleet (although it
> was
> > converted back to diesel only).
> > Also, the 4 SD60MAC's 9500-9503 had their
> own
> > paint scheme.
>
> I know that the 60MAC's never made it to BNSF.

ah ok...didn't know how long they lasted. I"m not sure if the LNG units made
it into BNSF either.