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Burlington Northern Business Cars (BNA-8)

This lightweight business car was built in 1947 by Pullman-Standard for the former GN as their A-28. In the late 60's the GN renumbered this car as A-4, and repainted it Big Sky Blue. Entering the 1970 BN merger, it remained that same way, with only the initials changing from GN to BN. One year later this car was repainted into the standard green & white scheme, but it still kept it's A-4 desination. Ten months later it acquired the nomenclature BNA-8 and was named "Kootenai River. It remained that way through it's 1974 general rebuilding until 1981/82, when it got a major overhaul and a new name, "Canadian River". In 1982, BNA-7 and BNA-8 switched names! We think in early '82 there were actually two "Canadian River" cars.

Car NoColorDate changedLocationFormerlyNow
A4blu/wht03/01/70
GN A4/A28BN A4
A4grn/wht01/01/71
BN A4BN A4
A4grn/wht11/01/71
BN A4Kootenai River
BNA-8Click here for a diagram page of this car after the 1974 rebuilding
BNA-8grn/wht10/22/77Como Shops
Kootenai River
BNA-8gutted02/01/81Como Shops
Kootenai River
BNA-8grn/wht03/01/81
Kootenai RiverCanadian River
BNA-8grn/wht09/01/92Brainerd
Canadian River
BNA-8dk grn/crm09/01/95

Canadian River
BNA-8silver09/01/05

Canadian River

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