Nostalgia & History > Ready to drop the puck?

No photographer, date or location.... Denver did have a water tank that color.

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The second photo is almost certainly Denver. There's the washrack.

Redwater Wrote:
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> The second photo is almost certainly Denver.
> There's the washrack.

Yes, tjhat's my photo from 3/1/69

I didn't realize any 4-axle power got the hockey treatment. Neat.

I'm in the same boat. I've only known that scheme was applied to the SD45's. How many of the GP40's were painted that way?

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

funnelfan Wrote:
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> I'm in the same boat. I've only known that scheme
> was applied to the SD45's. How many of the GP40's
> were painted that way?

I'll add one more model ... U23C #467 was taken by Karl Henkels in Galesburg, IL on July 20, 1969 and I think only 1 GP40

**** Looks like another U23C was painted (#468?) and is just behind the 467

 



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/24 15:02 by valmont.

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funnelfan Wrote:
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> I'm in the same boat. I've only known that scheme
> was applied to the SD45's. How many of the GP40's
> were painted that way?

One.
New orders of SD45’s and U23C’s.

Posted from iPhone

Only one GP40, the pictured was painted in the BN test scheme.   Otherwise the last order of CB&Q SD45's all had the white dipped end scheme and the U23C's did as well.   This was not a BN paint scheme, it was the final CB&Q scheme, and note the nose stripes were thinner and V'd, the units were lettered simply BURLINGTON on the side and had Q numbers.

Someone got a bit ahead of things here. The 629 is a CB&Q number, the BN logo should not have been applied unless it was in a BN number, 3029.

ft

callen77 Wrote:

> I didn't realize any 4-axle power got the hockey treatment.

Some non-CB&Q F-units got a variation on that scheme, too:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,5622650,5622652#5622652
https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,3730680

Evan_Werkema Wrote:
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> callen77 Wrote:
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> > I didn't realize any 4-axle power got the hockey
> treatment.
>
> Some non-CB&Q F-units got a variation on that
> scheme, too:
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> https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11
> ,5622650,5622652#5622652
> https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11
> ,3730680

These shots were of BN units in their passenger scheme.  Those that survived were later repainted, and renumbered, dropping the "hockey stick".  

Thanks for posting the original shots, V.  

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/18/24 18:34 by ntharalson.