While waiting for the 6pm departure of BNSF's Employee Appreciate Special from Alliance, I noticed a Heritage 1 "Goat Boat", so I had to grab a shot. The name "Goat Boat" has two origins. "Goat" comes from the fact that the original Heritage 1 paint scheme for BNSF is very similar to the Great Northern Railway, which is one of the railroads that merged together to from Burlington Northern in 1970. The Great Northern had a Mountain Goat in its herald. "Boat" comes from the old reference to GE locomotives as "U-Boats", from their early designations such as U30C.
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