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http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=392356
I drove by this exact spot last Saturday but didn't pay attention if this was sitting buy the highway in Altoona not far from where I first met my wife.
I hope NS will do others like PRR, PC, NH, and Chessie since they are part of the family.
I found this after the original posting. The article said NS has announced 18 additional schemes total. This should be fun for railfans.
http://www.nscorp.com/nscorphtml/images/heritage_locos/PC.jpg
Here are sketches of the other
schemes.
http://www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/Media/images/heritage_images.html
Here's a close-up of the PRR.
http://www.nscorp.com/nscorphtml/images/heritage_locos/PRR.jpg
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Posted - March 17 2012 : 8:34:38 PM
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I'm anxious to see the Penssy 5 stripe, Reading, Southern, NYC lightning stripe, and Lackawanna for starters. It seems strange to see fallen flag schemes like this on such a boxy loco, though. The corners of the nose will put a crease in the Pennsy pinstripes.
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Posted - March 17 2012 : 9:26:05 PM
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Here's the Lackawanna paint scheme.
http://www.nscorp.com/nscorphtml/images/heritage_locos/Lackawanna.jpg
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Posted - March 17 2012 : 10:12:01 PM
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  Awesome Sauce! I like to think of these Heritige Schemes as a "what if" hehe
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Posted - March 18 2012 : 4:37:13 PM
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Lehigh Valley Heritage scheme.
http://www.nscorp.com/nscorphtml/images/heritage_locos/LV.jpg
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Posted - March 18 2012 : 4:45:55 PM
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Posted - March 22 2012 : 08:20:54 AM
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Southern unit is out!
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=392712&nseq=0
Conrail unit now out pounding the rails!
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=392785
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Posted - March 24 2012 : 02:54:35 AM
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the link to the main site...
http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?userid=56989
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Posted - March 25 2012 : 09:13:59 AM
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Thanks for the other links fellas.
I check railpictures.net every day but hadn't seen the Southern or the CR on the rails until I saw the links.
I wonder what the time frame is for releases of new schemes?
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Posted - April 06 2012 : 6:48:38 PM
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I mistakenly put this also in the Nickel Plate Road Heritage paint scheme post and it should be here. I think this album will be updated from the site as more schemes are released.
http://railpictures.net/album/103/
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Posted - April 09 2012 : 8:02:20 PM
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Norfolk and Western out today, April 9, and I tell you the truth I was visiting in the area and drove by those shops but did not see this engine. :(
http://railpictures.net/photo/394626
Check the album listed above, post before this one, to to see them all in one spot.
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Posted - April 14 2012 : 10:04:03 AM
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This is "meet" is from railpictures.net . It shows the N&W heritage engine meeting the Southern heritage unit in Welch WV.
Pretty sweet!
http://railpictures.net/photo/395059
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Posted - April 16 2012 : 3:05:26 PM
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A couple of weeks ago I happened to be in Abingdon, Va. when the Southern paint scheme went by; it was clean and shiny, looked great!
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Posted - April 18 2012 : 07:56:30 AM
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for those who are into n gauge and like the idea of having the full 9 heritage locos fox valley models are doing a limited edition set all boxed up nicely for a $1000,ken
/tyco/forum/uploaded/catfordken/20120418075619_fvm.jpg
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fox-Valley-Models/92694309796
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Posted - April 18 2012 : 6:55:14 PM
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The PRR paint job is here. I'd like to see more PRR on the rails and that they never paint over this one!!!
Thanks Ken for your info too.
http://railpictures.net/photo/395428
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Posted - April 18 2012 : 7:12:45 PM
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sweet You KNOW some model railroad company Like Athern, Bachmann, etc Will come out with these locos in HO scale in the future 
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Posted - April 18 2012 : 8:14:46 PM
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For the HO scalers, I see Athearn and MTH doing these. I think Kato or FVM or both will do this in N. O scale, probaly Lionel and MTH.
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Posted - April 18 2012 : 8:38:49 PM
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It must be the light That Pennsy Unit looks Gawd-Awful! 
The colour looks way off....
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Posted - April 18 2012 : 8:53:01 PM
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I have to agree with Gareth. As I thought, the Pennsy cat whisker scheme was designed for locomotives with a streamlined front. IMHO, it just doesn't flatter a modern boxy diesel.
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Posted - April 18 2012 : 8:55:03 PM
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Yeah, Nelson I saw you said that earlier.
Maybe a single stripe in Brunswick would have worked better here?
I get the whole resonate thing but poorly executed is just that. Sad really. Funny the Nickle Plate seems to work ok. Hmmm
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Posted - April 18 2012 : 9:41:19 PM
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Fellas, it seems to be getting very positive comments at railpictures.net. I have to agree with them.
I'll probably paint an Alco 430 to look like this as soon as time permits.
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Posted - April 18 2012 : 9:54:35 PM
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AF, I had high hopes for this too, but it just doesn't work for me. I saw the positive feedback on RP, so it's all a matter of taste.
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Posted - April 18 2012 : 10:08:02 PM
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Well AF "One man with courage is a majority"
OR in the case of Nelson and I enough to handle 4 armed cops!   Snicker!
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Posted - April 20 2012 : 06:08:57 AM
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http://railpictures.net/photo/395522
Intersate RR scheme.
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Posted - April 23 2012 : 5:27:16 PM
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Lehigh Valley Heritage scheme from Altoona Pa.
http://railpictures.net/photo/395891
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Posted - April 23 2012 : 11:27:53 PM
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Now that Lehigh Valley is really cool! 
I definitely prefer it to the Interstate creamsicle. 
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Posted - April 24 2012 : 4:08:23 PM
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I think the LV is very similar to the PRR but not nearly as aesthetic .
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Posted - April 24 2012 : 6:09:09 PM
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Interestingly the Pennsy is too Redish, and the LV not Cornell Redish enough!
Most of these schemes don't suite the axe carved personna of the newer rigs.... JMOoC
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Posted - April 24 2012 : 9:19:12 PM
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I have to agree with Nelson, I'm from Pennsylvania and the PRR looks of that Evo GE just doesn't cut it for me either, B runswick Green single stripe PRR might have been a better choice however, wasn't that PRR's "Varnish" paint tho? Not the Tuscon Red?
The Lehigh unit tho, looks good, why hell if I know!
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Posted - April 25 2012 : 3:44:49 PM
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I was raised in PA and I think PRR retro job it looks great. I think EM-1's suggestion would be fine too or Nelson's as well. The square boxy locomotive is here and it is a canvas for these old and missed paint schemes. This will be fun to see on the rails and Ilook forward to seeing more pictures.
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 8:44:45 PM
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Not too reddish here in real life use.
http://railpictures.net/photo/396306
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Posted - April 29 2012 : 12:35:01 AM
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AF, after seeing this I've revised my opinion.
In the first photo the color did seem off, but not like Gareth said. It looked too pale, like milk chocolate, so it was probably the lighting in that particular photo. In this image, it's really quite striking. 
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Posted - April 29 2012 : 06:46:28 AM
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Nelson759,
It's amazing how the light , or camera or settings etc might affect the colors.
I'm hoping to see some of these heritage units sometime.
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Posted - April 29 2012 : 08:23:10 AM
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if you have facebook the revised lehigh valley scheme is shown ken
/tyco/forum/uploaded/catfordken/20120618145236_lv.jpg
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150911435468034&set=a.10150911432088034.433621.199135143033&type=1&theater
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Posted - June 18 2012 : 3:01:43 PM
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Ken,
I understand that the nose was changed from the first repainting for some reason.
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Posted - June 18 2012 : 3:05:18 PM
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nose and handrails seem to be the main difference plus the cab flags are bigger ken
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Posted - June 23 2012 : 4:07:40 PM
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Here's a cab tour of the Pennsy heritage unit by a guy who shoots a lot of NYS&W videos.
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Posted - June 23 2012 : 4:18:59 PM
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The Lego train builder Peter Norman (Swoofty) of Flickr has posted pictures of two versions of the engines built form Lego.
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Posted - June 23 2012 : 5:23:22 PM
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Nelson,
Thanks for the video it was great. The engineer seemed to be a trainee, I'm thinking. He didn't sound like the typical New Yorker.
I don't know how I missed your post
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Posted - June 23 2012 : 6:18:27 PM
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hey is NS gonna do a PennCentral? 
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Posted - June 23 2012 : 7:30:04 PM
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hey is NS gonna do a PennCentral?
Originally posted by microbusss - June 23 2012 : 6:18:27 PM
Yes, they showed a sketch of it when they made the announcement of the heritage paint schemes. Try the link below and some of the ones in the first post.
http://www.nscorp.com/nscorphtml/images/heritage_locos/PC.jpg
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Posted - June 23 2012 : 7:34:24 PM
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You're welcome, AF. You hardly missed it, since you commented a little more than an hour after I posted.
A Penn Central unit is easy... All they have to do is slap PC logos over their own and then spray the unit with a thick layer of grime.
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Posted - June 23 2012 : 8:41:31 PM
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I KNOW the artist! I'd certainly like to know how he's been & stuff!
I has 3 of his prints he did in the 90s! They are of the Desert Storm locos that BN UP & ConRail did
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Posted - June 24 2012 : 12:33:04 PM
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this one is certain to please at least one member ken
CNJ and lower down wabash
http://www.facebook.com/pages/NS-Heritage-Locomotives/374866022543118
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Posted - June 25 2012 : 5:48:07 PM
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Penn Central released today.
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Posted - June 26 2012 : 12:31:22 PM
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Illinois terminal released.
http://railpictures.net/photo/401776
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Posted - June 27 2012 : 2:26:43 PM
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I live in Norfolk and I seen this on NS web site:
Schedule announced for Norfolk Southern Heritage Locomotive family portrait
NORFOLK, VA. - Norfolk Southern and the North Carolina Transportation Museum have announced the daily schedule for the display of the Norfolk Southern Heritage Locomotive fleet at the museum in Spencer, N.C., on July 3 and 4.
The schedule below applies to both days. A map of the museum will be available on site each day of the event.
•8 a.m. - Gates open
•8:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. - Heritage Power Parade in the area south of the roundhouse. This is a photo event featuring each heritage unit separately and side-by-side with historic locomotives from predecessor railroads.
•11 a.m. - Welcome, announcements, and safety briefing in the turntable area. Norfolk Southern CEO Wick Moorman will speak on July 3 only.
•1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Conrail locomotive family around the turntable. Up-close visiting time for Southern and Norfolk & Western family units.
•2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. - Norfolk & Western family around the turntable. Up-close visiting time for Conrail and Southern family units.
•4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Southern family around the turntable. Up-close visiting time for Norfolk & Western and Conrail family units.
•5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. - All 20 units around the turntable with NS locomotive 1030 (signifying NS' 30th anniversary) on display.
•9 p.m. - 11 p.m. - Night photo session. Schedule to be determined.
The Norfolk Southern Lawmen Band will perform in the afternoon.
Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for children in advance, and $30 for adults and $20 for children the day of the event. Children 2 and under are free. Tickets can be purchased at the NCTM's website or by calling 704-636-2889, ext. 237. Norfolk Southern employees and retirees are eligible for a $5 discount, with a limit of four tickets per purchase. Some restrictions may apply. Retirees must purchase tickets by phone to get the discount.
I'll surely be there!!
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I hope NS will do others like PRR, PC, NH, and Chessie since they are part of the family.
schemes. Originally posted by Alco Fan - March 17 2012 : 5:50:40 PM
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I thought Chessie was part of CSX?
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Revised nose looks a lot better. Lettering is still way wrong. It's kind of a pet peeve of mine - they went all out to make sure to get some of these right (having paint special mixed to the old formulas for Erie two-tone green, for instance) and I can't understand why they couldn't spend like eight bucks for a set of Microscale decals to use as the basis for the artwork to make the LV unit look right. Heck as first done the nose and rear diamonds had yellow stripes around them - that never happened, ever, back in the day.
The red itself is debatable because when the LV needed to paint a unit, if there wasn't enough red on hand, they'd mix in a container of white, or black, or whatever was handy to stretch it out - but I agree, if it's supposed to represent a factory paint job as on the last new units the LV got, it's too dark/too brown.
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Posted - June 28 2012 : 9:55:12 PM
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Spencer you say? I must be there! I have to see that Conrail!
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