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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 No	Color	Date changed	Location	Formerly	Now
A4	blu/wht	03/01/70		GN A4/A28	BN A4
A4	grn/wht	01/01/71		BN A4	BN A4
A4	grn/wht	11/01/71		BN A4	Kootenai River
BNA-8	Click here for a diagram page of this car after the 1974 rebuilding
BNA-8	grn/wht	10/22/77	Como Shops		Kootenai River
BNA-8	gutted	02/01/81	Como Shops		Kootenai River
BNA-8	grn/wht	03/01/81		Kootenai River	Canadian River
BNA-8	grn/wht	09/01/92	Brainerd		Canadian River
BNA-8	dk grn/crm	09/01/95			Canadian River
BNA-8	silver	09/01/05			Canadian River

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