When CSX annexed Norfolk and Southern did they repaint the engines or just buy new ones?[?]
WHAT? Was I asleep again? When did CSX annex (buy) NS? Ha, ha, ha, I bet this was just a joke, right?
Would you please furnish me the year NSRR was taken over by CSX?
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When two railroads merge, the locomotives of both segments are owned by the new (or combined) company. Eventually they’ll get repainted, sold off, or whatever, just as they would if there was no merger involved. Of course, the new company will probably buy more locomotives than any of its old components likely would have under the same circumstances.
CSX and NS are both very much alive.
AFAIK the only historical “Norfolk and Southern” was merged into Southern Railway in the '70s, and therefore was not and would not be ‘annexed’ by CSX or any of its predecessors. See
http://www.norfolksouthernhs.org/aboutus.html
I presume the question actually relates to CSX and their part of Conrail?
And the only answer that makes sense is ‘they repaint the engines they think they want to keep, when it’s time to repaint; they may leave them in original paint & just ‘patch’ the numbers to save money; they may buy new if they think they need new.’
(Or other appropriate variations on the general theme of sound asset management for locomotives, as interpreted by railroad management…)
I KNEW IT! THOSE SNEAKY B****** MERGED RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES!!!
LOL jk they didntmerge or get bought out. Who is your informant?
A lot depends on the image the “new” management wants to project. UP has held the line - Same paint now for years, and all companies merged in are eventually repainted to UP.
On the other hand, sometimes a merger creates an entirely new color scheme - witness BN.