Friday, November 7, 2014

Timeline

This page will denote certain dates in and around my depicted era to help guide roster and layout decisions.

September 22, 1995—Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation was formed as a holding company which then purchased BN and ATSF.


 September 1st, 1996—1st day the “Trinity Connection” was placed into service.

December 31, 1996—“Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway” formally merged BN and Santa Fe.

June 1998—DRGW Switcher Arrives.

June 15th, 1999—Heartland Flyer Begins Service:.

November 17, 1999. End of Service for B30-A(B).  (Prev February-March 1999; April 1999; July 1, 1999; )

March 2000—TXUX Cars Arrive, Built October 1999 thru July 2000.

March/April 2000—BNSF TrinCool Reefers Arrive

April 2000—Winged Shield/Lightning Stripe For UP Locos, starting with SD70M’s.

August 2000—Amtrak New Logo.

November 16, 2001 UP Flag Logo – Three new SD70Ms: 4526-7-8
December 2001--UP/ARMN Rebuilds Started ???
January 2002 UP Flag Logo (Production) – SD70Ms: 4735-4999
February 2002 UP Flag Logo (Production) – C44AC-CTEs: 5770-5864

March 2002—New CSX Paint Scheme, starting with SD50 unit 8503.

September 2004—BNSF “Last Circle Logo” Coal Gons Arrive, sometime before 09/30/04.

January 24, 2005—BNSF “Swoosh” Logo Introduced and name changed to “BNSF Railway”.

July 30, 2005—Union Pacific unveiled UP 1982 MoPac and UP 1983 WPac at special event in Omaha, NE
August 17, 2005—UP 1988, the Katy unit, was unveiled in Horicon, WI
October 18, 2005—George H W Bush - UP 4141 unveiled in College Station, TX

February 2006—BNSF SD70Ace’s arrived.

March 2006—TGNX Cars Arrive, TGNX 30001-30540 (Series 30429-30540 has employee name/power plant) Built Feb/Mar 2006.

June 6-24th, 2006???—Last day(s) of the Union Equity logo before the generic “Attebury Grain” sign was painted.  (found 3/15/2006 photo Blair K…maybe mislabeled); EDIT: Found photo by David Hawkins dated 9/28/2008 still showing Union Equity logo with NRE 3GS21B #1279 in the pic.

December 2006-January 2007—NRE 3GS21B "Genset" Locos Arrive #'s 1220, 1221, 1222, 1223, 1224, 1225, 1226, 1227

July 2007—Ex Santa Fe Highlevels end service on Heartland Flyer

Septemeber 29th, 2007—Rescar CF7’s Scrapped.

July 2009 Saginaw Yard (Classification) Closed

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