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Nostalgia & History > BN Caboose 10553 with RED RIVER - 1984Date: 11/02/05 07:04 BN Caboose 10553 with RED RIVER - 1984 Author: cozephyr Burlington Northern caboose 10553 was sparkling clean coupled to business car RED RIVER. They were being wyed at Denver, CO, January 12, 1984. Plenty of manpower on the caboose platform.
 Date: 01/12/23 05:56 Re: BN Caboose 10553 with RED RIVER - 1984 Author: rrpreservation Great shot!!
Date: 01/12/24 08:39 Re: BN Caboose 10553 with RED RIVER - 1984 Author: 4451Puff It may be that the cars are at differing angles to each other, but the two shades of green seem different. Did the shade of "BN green" change throughtout the years? It seems like photos of older BN green vs. later have a different shade, or maybe it's just different / aged filmstock?
Date: 01/12/24 09:41 Re: BN Caboose 10553 with RED RIVER - 1984 Author: dan well the red river was painted in the twin cities by BN and had wax protection i think, maybe with imron? the caboose was painted by intl car co with out wax suffering UV, red river gets much more TLC, who knows if paint laws changed during the time. ?
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/12/24 23:58 by dan. Date: 01/12/24 12:47 Re: BN Caboose 10553 with RED RIVER - 1984 Author: MILW16 The Red River is now BNSF's Matthew K. Rose, complete with added stainless fluting.
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