NS Heritage Fleet Thread

[TrainWatcher]

On the other hand Matt, Andrew Fletcher (the guy who drew the poster) has mysteriosuly stopped posting his drawings/pictures on Facebook as soon as the NS Heritage Program was announced. Don't forget the C&G scheme was his idea or BN/BNSF. So who says NS PR people have him working on their designs?? I mean going from posting 10 drawings/pictures a day to NONE and no one has heard from him, of those of us who follow him, is a little odd wouldn't you say.

[PerRock]

not specifically Heritage; but I mocked this up a while ago.



peter

[sd70accsxt700]

On the other hand Matt, Andrew Fletcher (the guy who drew the poster) has mysteriosuly stopped posting his drawings/pictures on Facebook as soon as the NS Heritage Program was announced. Don't forget the C&G scheme was his idea or BN/BNSF. So who says NS PR people have him working on their designs?? I mean going from posting 10 drawings/pictures a day to NONE and no one has heard from him, of those of us who follow him, is a little odd wouldn't you say.

If he just fell of the face of the earth that lends less credence to him being in with the NS program. What is the C&G? And how was it his idea? And now your saying that he invented the BNSF job? It has been leaked out by a few in the know that NS has contacted historical socities about digrams and paint colors.

[bctrainfan]

Maybe he knew too much! I heard some men in black suits (with tiny white horseheads on the lapels) showed up at his house one day and no one has seen him since!

[Clay320]

http://trn.trains.com/en/Railroad%20News/News%20Wire/2012/03/Norfolk%20Southern%20provides%20more%20details%20about%20heritage%20units.aspx

Units to be delivered by March and on the Road By June 1st. Article also lists a final roster and what units GE and EMD are building.

[TrainWatcher]

http://www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/ ... itage.html

And Andrew Fletcher was the driving force behind the paint schemes. Here is a rundown:

Final List:

C of G, CNJ, Conrail, DL&W, Erie, Illinois Terminal Railroad (That is gonna be sick in the Green Scheme), Interstate Railroad, LV, NYC, NKP, Norfolk Southern (Old Norfolk & Southern), N&W, PRR, Reading, S&A, SOU, Virginian, Wabash.

GE's will be painted in Altoona and Chattanooga, the SD70ACe's will be fresh out of the shop at PRS at Muncie, IN.

[MDH]

Or direct from NS:

Press release:

http://www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/ ... itage.html

Images:

http://www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/ ... mages.html

[sd70accsxt700]

Ugh S&A in Tuxedo? I thought they wanted them all in "origonal" paint. I like to see a tuxedo, on one of the units, but why not the SOU instead of the S&A. And a suprise to see Interstate instead of PWV. Still nice to see them doing something.

[YpsiAmtrakBoy]

Feel like this one was pretty easy...


I like the NYC too! Hope that one ends up in Michigan... And maybe the wabash one too

[SHMILLER]

Man, that CNJ unit looks ugly! I'm pretty disappointed that I won't get the TAG unit I wanted, but these two are pretty good consolation.





Can't complain too much, at least they're doing it! Hats off to NS for showing a lot more pride and class than CSX ever will.

[Bellevue_Guy]

I look forward to seeing this one

[YpsiAmtrakBoy]

figured i'd make it easy on everybody and just post all of the pics
ES44's

















SD70Ace


don't know what the breakdown will be but only one engine was painted as a SD70Ace, the rest were ES44's

[esprrfan]

The Interstate is close to a old Illinois Central

[ConrailMan5]

Doesn't NS have a number of units painted in NS but have various heritage reporting marks? I was told this was to keep hold of the license for them.

The other Question related to the RDG one, is: What NYC paint scheme are we going to get? Lightning Stripe or Cigar Band?

peter

yeah

List of reporting marks
AGS - Alabama Great Southern Railroad
CG sometimes CofG[citation needed] - Central of Georgia Railway
CNTP - Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (CNO&TP)
CR - Conrail
GANO - Georgia Northern Railway
NKP - Nickel Plate Road
PRR - Pennsylvania Lines LLC
NS - Norfolk Southern
NW - Norfolk and Western Railway
SOU - Southern Railway
TAG - Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway
VGN - Virginian Railway
WAB - Wabash Railroad

from wikipedia

these are what they could have. I have seen NW SOU CR and CNTP all on engines; there are possibably more engines with different reporting marks out there. many cars still hold old reporting marks too.

Carrect me if I am wrong, but arn't all of these still considered NS subsidiaries?

Alos, How is Illinois Terminal involved in all of this?

[atrainguy60]

I think I read that the Illinois Terminal merged with the N&W.

[Robertrains]

This is awesome news! I'm very glad that NS is doing this! It sure beats any other railroad (in the way of heritage)!
I like the Nickel Plate/Southern/Lehigh Valley/Pennsylvania best! Of course Conrail is among my favorites too!!!!
Hey they all look great! Now, I haven't seen any responses from my post from 1-30 on the NS updates!
Listed below is info (again) about the Re-painted GP59 #4610!

Southern Heritage GP59 #4610 has been repainted into black NS Operation Lifesaver colors. I have never seen it in Sou green; it's too bad! Has it been to Michigan in those colors?

Picture of the repaint (by Don Woods): http://www.nsdash9.com/rosters/4606.html

TO forum about it:
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,2667996

[YpsiAmtrakBoy]

Has it been to Michigan in those colors?

it could have happened but i doubght it. it mostly worked down on the southern part of NS's system, and it was used for promotional events by NS. it was a pretty unit though

[hoborich]

Southern Heritage GP59 #4610 has been repainted into black NS Operation Lifesaver colors. I have never seen it in Sou green; it's too bad! Has it been to Michigan in those colors?

I saw it at Sterling yard a couple years ago, in Southern green.

[AC60CW]

I think I read that the Illinois Terminal merged with the N&W.

Correct

[MQT3001]

Aww----now when I'm sitting in Porter and an NS freight is coming I actually will have to guess the paint scheme of the locos.....in the past it was always easy, cause you know they will be black