Nostalgia & History > How about some GN Sky Blue for Saturday?

Let's go back almost a half century ago to the early 70s and have a look at some Great Northern Sky Blue.  The Burlington Northern was one year into its corporate existence, but the Sky Blue scheme still shined brightly.
1) The class unit of BN's U25Bs, #5400 leads a westbound manifest beneath the EJ&E bridge at Eola IL at MP33 on the former Burlington 'East End' on June 25, 1972.
2) Still wearing GN's 'Rocky the goat' herald, F45 #6607 leads a colorful consist eastbound at Eola IL on August 5, 1972.
3) A pair of former GN GP20s, one orange and one blue, at Galesburg IL on August 30 1971.

Steve Zahn
Glenview, IL

 

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Real nice. The BN transition years were VERY colorful!
JB

those f45's look great..........

66

Can't get enough of that.

Many thanks for posting!!!

Steve, you need to spend the rest of the day posting more of this great GN stuff!

WrongMain Wrote:
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> Steve, you need to spend the rest of the day
> posting more of this great GN stuff!

I second the motion.