NS Heritage Fleet Thread

[MDH]

Personaly i cant wait for the Reading heritage locomotive, I love reading so it makes sence i just wish the Reading heritage loco wasn't just black with Reading in yellow.

Uh... what are you talking about? Here's the artwork from the NS press release:



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

[penn central]

According to trains news wire CofG and Nickel Plate Gevo's out by the end of this week possibly boy that Nickel Plate unit will be a blast from the past that's going to be awesome. Thanks for the info guys your right i may have to think of 24 hours at Alliance Ohio. Instead or what the heck get greedy and do both.

[ns8401]

According to trains news wire CofG and Nickel Plate Gevo's out by the end of this week possibly boy that Nickel Plate unit will be a blast from the past that's going to be awesome. Thanks for the info guys your right i may have to think of 24 hours at Alliance Ohio. Instead or what the heck get greedy and do both.

N&W not Nickel Plate...

[penn central]

According to trains news wire CofG and Nickel Plate Gevo's out by the end of this week possibly boy that Nickel Plate unit will be a blast from the past that's going to be awesome. Thanks for the info guys your right i may have to think of 24 hours at Alliance Ohio. Instead or what the heck get greedy and do both.

N&W not Nickel Plate...

Thanks ns8401 they made a mistake, Ok ill settle for the N&W that was a neat railroad to.

[Bellevue_Guy]

Dang, would have been nice to see the Nickel Plate out this early.

Though I guess it makes sense to get the heritage units of the 3 large direct predecessors done first.

[h710railfan]

Hmm, thats not the picture i seen at all i like that. If it looks like that im fine, there was photos on NS's facebook page showing the Reading heritage loco being just black.

Personaly i cant wait for the Reading heritage locomotive, I love reading so it makes sence i just wish the Reading heritage loco wasn't just black with Reading in yellow.

Uh... what are you talking about? Here's the artwork from the NS press release:



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

[MQT3001]

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

Just saw NS 6038 in Porter, has a small PRR sticker under the ###, wonder if this how they keep it.....

[SD80MAC]

All of the ex Conrail stuff got PRR marks after the split, some still have them. Several NS engines still have small CNOTP, NW, CG, or SOU reporting marks too.

[cbehr91]

That and all of the heritage units are supposed to be new deliveries...

[ns8401]

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

Just saw NS 6038 in Porter, has a small PRR sticker under the ###, wonder if this how they keep it.....

There is no NS 6038, which one did you see? Somebody got your goat MQT.

[MQT3001]

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

Just saw NS 6038 in Porter, has a small PRR sticker under the ###, wonder if this how they keep it.....

There is no NS 6038, which one did you see? Somebody got your goat MQT.

I'll look at the film later...

[MQT3001]

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

Just saw NS 6038 in Porter, has a small PRR sticker under the ###, wonder if this how they keep it.....

There is no NS 6038, which one did you see? Somebody got your goat MQT.

Okay, looked at the film, the correct ## is 3068

[ns8401]

That would be a former CR GP40-2 which would have had PRR sublettering applied before and after it was repainted. Probably some employee doing that lettering for nostalgia now as it was repainted in 2008 after NS had stopped using sublettering.

[Michigan Railfan]

Trains Magazine for May 2012 has an entire article about the 18 units. They said the rest of them should be out by NS's 30th birthday on June 1st. They also said their lone heritage unit -- GP59 4610 painted in Southern green was repainted to make way for the new fleet. The article also said that NS considered other railroads as well, and finally came to the conclusion that they must today operate some of the predecessors' former track. This kicked out New Haven and the Providence & West Virginia. The SD70's should be ready in April.

[YpsiAmtrakBoy]

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=393441&nseq=0

NKP unit

[Chris7092]

WOW!!!

[Y@]

That is hot.

[legostudios34]

Any word on where the Southern unit is?

[cnw8835]

Any word on where the Southern unit is?

Its been working coal trains in western Virginia for the last few days.

[Bellevue_Guy]

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=393441&nseq=0

NKP unit

They did a great job. Nice to see this as one of the first ones done afterall.

I see it doesn't have any NS reporting mark, nor the small "NYC&STL" that would go on the nose. Not fully done yet?

Edit: This pic of it MDH posted in chat shows an NS reporting mark on the other side of it
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=393493