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Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - Brakie - 03-16-2012
Charlie B Wrote:LiveSteamer Wrote:Here's food for thought, NS 8098 & 8099 came out of the plant together. One went to altoona ( 8098 ) and the other went to Chatt, TN. Juniata managed to paint her and have her outside before the Chattanoga shops. Juniata is still holding up to its name for sure. Now which place would you rather have paint the locomotives?Quality, not quantity...In all fairness to the Tenn. fellows, the Conrail job is one color, and vinyl lettering and vinyl logos. the Southern scheme is at least 2 colors, and it takes time for paint to dry enough for the additional masking, as well as time to paint. The Conrail unit was probably in Altoona sooner too.
Charlie
Southern has 3 colors-Black hood,a thin gold stripe and a white band that wraps around the locomotive..Even the green scheme had the gold stripe and white band around the engine..
Conrail has two colors..A blue body,black trucks,fuel tank and pilot.In CR's last days many locomotives had a white frame stripe.
Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - railohio - 03-16-2012
When in doubt, refer to the official company press release:
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Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - ngauger - 03-16-2012
So now I guess the question should be... How long do we have to wait to actually see one of the 18 on our rails here in the Mid-Atlantic States???
~~~ Just what i need --- another reason to chase trains!!!!!!
Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - railohio - 03-16-2012
ngauger Wrote:So now I guess the question should be... How long do we have to wait to actually see one of the 18 on our rails here in the Mid-Atlantic States???
Half of them will be painted at Altoona so the seeing them part is entirely up to you.
Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - ngauger - 03-16-2012
railohio Wrote:ngauger Wrote:So now I guess the question should be... How long do we have to wait to actually see one of the 18 on our rails here in the Mid-Atlantic States???
Half of them will be painted at Altoona so the seeing them part is entirely up to you.
Too far from Altoona
Hopefully some will come eastward
Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - Bob C - 03-16-2012
Have it from a friendly foamer...she's by Greensburg, Pa...west on the Pittsburgh Line about 5 pm, and Fast Freddy has alerted the area fans. Bob C.
Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - LiveSteamer - 03-21-2012
The southern heritage unit is completed and now another unit has arrived at altoona. This unit will be the N&W Heritage unit.
Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - Bob C - 03-21-2012
NS Southern unit, anyone? http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=392712&nseq=0
Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - Justinmiller171 - 03-29-2012
Nickel Plate Road Heritage Unit: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=393441
and http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=393493&nseq=0
Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - ngauger - 03-30-2012
Beautiful!!!
Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - LiveSteamer - 03-31-2012
NKP #8100 on 11A this morning.
Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - ngauger - 03-31-2012
Great Shot!!
KEEP POSTING THEM!!!!
Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - FCIN - 03-31-2012
NS needs to seriously consider adopting the NKP scheme. At the very least they need to change the white lettering and stripes to that shade of yellow - would be a HUGE improvement!
Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - LiveSteamer - 03-31-2012
11A this morning had SD60E #6905 which was built at Juniata.
Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - LiveSteamer - 04-05-2012
And then, there were 4. The 4th heritage unit to roll out is Central of Georgia. Next should be the N&W which is to be painted at Juniata.