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.
Larry
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Summerset Ry
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When in doubt, refer to the official company press release:
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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.
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
The southern heritage unit is completed and now another unit has arrived at altoona. This unit will be the N&W Heritage unit.
Matt I can smell a steam post ten blocks away and when I do clear the tracks because the steam express will be hi ballin through http://cambriaindiana.weebly.com/
Matt I can smell a steam post ten blocks away and when I do clear the tracks because the steam express will be hi ballin through http://cambriaindiana.weebly.com/
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!
11A this morning had SD60E #6905 which was built at Juniata.
Matt I can smell a steam post ten blocks away and when I do clear the tracks because the steam express will be hi ballin through http://cambriaindiana.weebly.com/
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.
Matt I can smell a steam post ten blocks away and when I do clear the tracks because the steam express will be hi ballin through http://cambriaindiana.weebly.com/
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.
