Description
The Half-Bay Window was a design championed by the New York Central and their successors and was adopted by a handful of other roads. When researching railroads, the "what" happened is often easy to find. The "why" it happened is more often then not an educated guess that is repeated until it becomes common wisdom. The guess for the existence of the Half-Bay Window design was to give the railroad the visibility of the bay window while still clearing low and tight obstructions such as through girder bridges and depot platforms.
This Burlington Northern paint scheme is actually from the BNSF era. Caboose BN 12610 rolled out of the paint shop with this lettering arrangement in January of 2007 – 11 years after the operations of BN and Santa Fe were combined. Even the BN reporting marks are in the post-merger BNSF style.
