| RBBQ RBL-5 77165 at Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in November 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. The CB&Q shops in Havelock, Nebraska built 150 insulated boxcars in 1967 numbered RBBQ 77100-77249. When built, they were painted in a forest green and stencilled in the standard Burlington font and the Burlington Route herald was applied to the now blank plate on the right side. This car is stencilled BLT. 6.67 HV, however, it appears it went back to Havelock for repairs as it is also stencilled HV 11-69. At that time, the pre-merger paint scheme was applied, with the intention of painting the word NORTHERN below the word BURLINGTON after the merger was approved. By the time the merger was approved, the font had been changed to a thinner style, which is understandable given the unfortunate spacing of the letters GT in the BURLINGTON on a ribbed car. |