Talk:Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
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Page moved
Moved from Burlington Northern Railroad. Text on the page referred to the new railroad, so clearly misnamed. --Morven 18:02, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Images
I neatened the image display, but does this article need all the pictures? —Morven 09:39, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
- (okay, a really late comment, but it didn't pop up on my watchlist until the comment below...) I think more than photos of the stations and track, it needs some photos of BNSF trains in operation. I've got some in my own collection, I'll see about uploading a couple of action shots tomorrow. slambo 21:13, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
- Well, there's one photo from last August. All my BNSF shots from Rochelle Railroad Park have the sun on the wrong side of the train so the lighting's pretty bad (UP photos, however, that's a different story). slambo 14:29, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
- That's a nice picture. I have a few BNSF pictures, being in BNSF territory, so I may see if I have any good ones to add too ... —Morven 15:56, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks. I especially like the way the train is kicking up the dust from the tie replacement work that was going on that day. We arrived at the spot for railfanning just as the tie crew was starting to work in the area, and after a quick chat with the foreman on site, we got to see (and video) the whole thing. Way cool! slambo 16:09, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
"Power Bar" logo
It's notable that railfans detest the new logo, which is rather uninspired to say the least. —Morven 20:40, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
- Frankly, I'm not too pleased with the new logo either (and I stated so on my personal page [1] (http://www.riptrack.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=65&Itemid=2)). My disappointment is that the new logo completely removes the ATSF circle-and-cross emblem, and neither this nor the previous logo include any aspect of BN's embedded N-in-a-B emblem. We got over the loss of the bn.com domain to a book seller, I guess we'll get over this too (and come up with our own names for the new logo ;-) ). slambo 21:13, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
- People on the railpictures.net message boards have taken to underlining BNSF ...
- This 'Hey, let's go by our initials' thing is so .. 80s. I guess 1980s fashions are back, why not 1980s corporate naming fashions too? At least they didn't rename themselves something like Deliverature ... following the previous corporate naming fad. Personally, I can deal with the initials, it's the logo that's truly bad. It's replacing something classy with something that looks like a kid at the local Kinkos drew it. I hope they didn't pay someone good money for that design. Union Pacific must be laughing their asses off; BNSF might know how to run a railway better, but UP certainly knows how to do the corporate image thing. —Morven 15:37, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
On a railfanning trip this weekend to Glen Haven, Wisconsin (a friend of mine has a house on the BNSF mainline there), I heard that the new logo has been named the "Power Bar" logo due to its resemblance to the logos on the athletic snack. slambo 19:50, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)