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Too bad right after all the publicity photos were over with, the unit was retired.....The NS version looked better in my opinion (and is still running).
>thats that Maersk engine Bill Hemb has in his signature. No, Bill has the GP60M that was done up in MAERSK paint for a publicity photo a few years back. I believe that it was repainted back into Santa FE/BNSF (can't remember) paint right after the publicity stunt.Chris Denbow - Baltimore, MD TKW Paintshop Technician
*******FROM ATSF.RAILFAN.NET******* In June 2002, BNSF 6976 was pulled from storage and sent to the National Railway Equipment shop in Mt. Vernon, IL to be gussied up for use as a display locomotive at the grand opening of Maersk's Pier 400 container terminal at the Port of Los Angeles in August. The unit received a special blue and silver Maersk paint scheme along the lines of Santa Fe's warbonnet, a scheme similar to the one worn by GP60M 146 for a Maersk promotional film in 1990. The first version of the scheme applied to 6976 had a small star emblem below nose headlight. This proved to be aesthetically unpleasing, so the unit returned to the shop to have its headlight relocated to the space between the numberboards and a larger emblem applied to the nose. The result was stunning, as illustrated by these photos with NS SD40-2 3329, Norfolk Southern's contribution to the Pier 400 festivities. The top view shows the units at Pier 400 on August 14, 2002; bottom shows them on the approach bridges to Terminal Island on August 16, 2002. Both photos by Joe Blackwell. Sadly, for 6976, the beauty was only skin deep. NRE did not make the unit operational, so it was merely an attractive "hood ornament" to be moved around by NS 3329. *******FROM ATSF.RAILFAN.NET*******
BNSF 6976 is currently sitting outside the Topeka, Kansas shops awaiting the scrapper much like many of her sister units.Austin Midwest Rail Group BNSF Trainmen
>BNSF 6976 is currently sitting outside the Topeka, Kansas shops awaiting the scrapper much like many of her sister units.Shame!! :| (can you detect my sarcasim??) Gimme a Pumkin H2 C44-9W any day baby!!!>Mike Forster< Perth, Westen Australiapacificnational_nr103@hotmail.com
