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The merger was opposed by the Justice Department in 1985 and denied in a 4–1 vote by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) on July 24 , 1986 , who ruled that such a merger included too many duplicate routes and was therefore monopolistic. The Commission denied SPSF's appeal (again in a 4–1 vote) on June 30 , 1987 . The holding company, ordered to operate the Southern Pacific at arm's length until it sold it, disposed of it on October 13 , 1988 to Rio Grande Industries for $1.02 billion and the assumption of SP's debt, which consolidated the SP with its Denver And Rio Grande Western railroad under the Southern Pacific name. The holding company retained all the non-rail interests of both predecessors and shortened its name to Santa Fe Pacific Corporation (though all of the California real estate holdings were consolidated in a new company, Catellus Development Corporation , the State's largest private land owner. Catellus subsequently purchased the Union Pacific Railroad's interest in the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal ). In 1995, the Santa Fe railroad merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern And Santa Fe Railway (BNSF), and the SP merged with the Union Pacific Railroad the following year. "KODACHROME" PAINT SCHEME The locomotive livery featured the Santa Fe's ''Yellowbonnet'' with a red stripe on the locomotive's nose; the remainder of the locomotive body was painted in Southern Pacific's ''Bloody Nose'' red with a black roof and black extending down to the lower part of the locomotive's radiator grills. In large block letters within the red portion of the sides was either "SP" (for Southern Pacific-owned locomotives) or "SF" (for Santa Fe-owned locomotives). The lettering was positioned on the locomotive sides so that the other half of the lettering could be added after the merger became official. One locomotive was painted with the full SPSF lettering to show what the unified paint scheme would look like after the merger was complete. This paint scheme, combining yellow, red and black, has come to be called the ''Kodachrome'' paint scheme due to the colors' resemblance to those on the boxes that Kodak used to package its Kodachrome slide film (which was heavily used by railfans of the time). After the ICC's denial, Railfan s joked that SPSF really stood for "Shouldn't Paint So Fast". Approximately twenty percent (20%) of the respective motive power fleets had been painted in this fashion at the time of merger denial. Even though the two railroads made an effort to repaint locomotives back into their standard paint schemes after the merger was denied, the occasional Kodachrome-painted locomotive still operates in lease service today. |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/caboose" class="copylinks">Caboose #999528 is one of the few way cars to be painted out in the SPSF ''Kodachrome'' scheme |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Southern_Pacific_Railroad" class="copylinks">Southern Pacific 's #6354, an EMD model GP35, is seen fresh out of the paint shops in Roseville, California , in this 1986 photo |
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