does/did burlington northern actually have these intermodal cars? The green colored like the picture but BN and not BNSF? and if so does anyone have a picture or the real thing?
This is from the Deluxe Innovations website: Burlington Northern Santa Fe inherited Gunderson Twinstacks from both of its immediate predecessors and many of these cars have now been renumbered into BNSF. Since repainting an entire Twinstack can cost a significant amount (particularly when the original paint is still in reasonably good shape) most have just been renumbered without receiving full BNSF graphics. The car seen above is the #1 car in this pair of releases. In this case, only the road numbers were blotted out with Cascade Green paint and new BNSF numbers added (in a plain gothic lettering style) while all of the original BN Innovative Intermodal Services logos were retained. The car in the lower photo is #2 in this release. It started off as a standard BN green Twinstack, but in this case all of the BN logos were blotted out with big green rectangles on all five wells. The road numbers on the A and B wells are lettered with BNSF's current style instead of the plain gothic used on the other car. This car also uses the new standard for dimensional data not used on the other car. Although both cars were built (and painted green) at about the same time, the paint has aged differently. The #2 car (which was photographed climbing Cajon Pass) was noticeably darker than the #1 car which was photographed in the Seattle area the same month. This difference is reflected in the models. Deluxe Innovations Web Site
I would like to find me a set of the BN ones and not the BNSF. I currently have this set from back in the day! So does deluxe usually model there models after the real life rolling stock and locos much like kato? [ February 28, 2005, 10:26 PM: Message edited by: popularthinks ]
DI is actually very faithful to the prototype when it comes to real life models. Yes, they do the Armend Forces Series, which are fantasy, but they probably put more research into their "realworld" models than most others. When I call in for updates on what's coming I hang up the phone with a wealth of information that has come from some pretty hardcore investigation on their part and they almost always have photographic backup as well.
The guy that does most of that research is Craig Ross. He will be miffed if this is not prototypical. I am not saying DI will not make a mistake, but they make a big effort to be correct. The "Kansas City Lou" car was a prototype (boxcar). The "remove roofwalk" boxcar was a prototype. AFAIK, all the boxcars are prototypical. The flatcars are prototypical. They would not do SP flatcars because they were wrong. SSW flat cars were good, but not SP.
Yes they are prototypical.I have seen them come through the yard every now and again.You just don't see much of the Gunderson stack cars much anymore.I think they are being phased out but the Lowboys and the Maxistacks,Due to being easier to load/unload.
