>>1443190Probably because they realized that the white would get dirty pretty quick and would need to be washed frequently to look nice. Management also didn't want it to seem like one pre-merger road was dominating the others by keeping a CBQ scheme and applying it to the other fleets. Same reason they didn't stick with GN's Big Sky Blue. But yeah, this scheme would have been way better than the one we got, especially with the more lime-ish green in this and early BN paint jobs vs. the later darker green they ended up sticking with.
Burlington Route received 15 SD45s and 9 U23Cs in this paint scheme prior to the merger.