CLASSIC TRAINS ARTICLE: Early Burlington Northern locomotives in review

On a trip “up north” to see the brand-new BN, two travelers savored the falling flags of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific
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Each new or bigger merger-created railroad in the 1960s and ’70s tackled its locomotive renumbering and repainting with a different philosophy and at a unique pace, depending on its spending philosophy and motive-power needs. BN quickly plunged into its planned renumbering, and did so neatly, but was slower at full repainting. It would not be until September 1977 when BN officially rolled out the last of its 1709 inherited diesels in Cascade green, ex-Spokane, Portland & Seattle Alco RS3 4064, at Spokane, Wash.
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