BAR GP-7 # 1776 Northern Me Jct, (Hermon ME) 03-08-77
The Bangor and Aroostook like so many other railroads adopted special paint schemes to celebrate the Nation's Birthday. GP-7 #73 was painted into this well done scheme being renumbered to #1776. I was pretty good friends with a mechanical supervisor and he told me the decision to paint the #73 was based on the number of failures the locomotive hd and the mean time between those failures. The logic was this unit was going to be on display much of the time so it was the logical choice.
BAR GP-7 # 1776 Northern Me Jct, (Hermon ME) 03-08-77
The Bangor and Aroostook like so many other railroads adopted special paint schemes to celebrate the Nation's Birthday. GP-7 #73 was painted into this well done scheme being renumbered to #1776. I was pretty good friends with a mechanical supervisor and he told me the decision to paint the #73 was based on the number of failures the locomotive hd and the mean time between those failures. The logic was this unit was going to be on display much of the time so it was the logical choice.