Check out the new paint job on the “1973” CSX unit. Pretty cool. Hope some of us will be lucky enough to see it in action.
https://www.csx.com/index.cfm/about-us/csx-unveils-locomotive-1973-honoring-chessie-system-heritage/
Pretty cool?
I’ll say.
What a neat video and an awesome paint job.
Simply fantastic.
Rich
#1827, the year the B&O was formed
perhaps a trend
I do remember hearing at a Memorial day picnic that CSX is going to do this in it’s predecessor paint schemes. Time will tell.
See the post over on the Trains forum. There are apparently going to be 25, with different roadnames (including MKT!).
Secondhand via Leo Ames, and with some light editing, they are:
B&O
C&O
Pere Marquette
Chessie System
Clinchfield
Georgia RR
B&M (but, apparently, not MEC)
RF&P
NC&StL
A&WP
Monon (but apparently not C&A)
ACL
L&N
PERE MARQUETTE
???
Hmmmmm. This one should be interesting, considering.
PMR
He just had it as “PM” in the original list, and I thought of you in particular so I typed it out.
Thank you Overmod, that was very considerate of you. [Y]
PMR
Any forecast on first manufacturer of these CSX heritage units in HO and/or N scales?
MKT as in Misouri-Kansas-Texas ???
I was in Cleveland on the day that the Chessie System paint was unveiled:
1977_GP40 by Edmund, on Flickr
Chessie go-go boots and hot pants? Yep, that’s the way it was…
Now I’ve lived long enough to see the ‘heritage’ recreation of the historic moment.
Cheers, Ed
I got to see the original Chessie units at the EMD 50th anniversary open house on 9/9/72. I never dreamed that I would someday be running GM50 and others into Clark Avenue and Collinwood yards.
The heritage units are nice but I would prefer to see them done in a full original scheme rather than the blend.
Mark Vinski
The Seaboard System unit is out!
MKT has already been done by UP. And C&EI was a part of MoPac-acquired by UP.
Kind of ironic they are leaving out the Pennsy for a heritage unit. Right now the trackage CSX uses to get into Frankfort, Indiana is the former Pennsy line. CSX abandoned and removed the Monon line in the early 90’s.
I wasn’t disappointed in the chessie locomotive. The Chessie name and logo are to small. I didn’t see the unique number font on locomotive. Is it in the back because they didn’t show us?
If the N Scale models are the same having one ES44 body shell. I wouldn’t be getting them. When you UP, BNSF, CP body shell on Eastern roads which are different. Makes them lazy repaints.
First choice - Scaletrains.com Second choice - Athearn
Most of the formally PRR is under NS ownership now (and PRR ws done by NS)
Second Chessie Heritage Unit
mvlandsw) Good video, but way too many commercials. Had to grab the video and watch it in my own software (commercial free!).
Im pretty sure though this unit wasnt vandalled. Lowes Nor Walmart sell Vermillion, Midnight blue, etc. And vandals arent smart enough to know about Chessie, the logo, OR the correct colors. They spray paint for a living, come on!
Being this unit is in Ga, its safe to presume this is the test unit for the paint mixes for the now seen Chessie Heritage unit. It was also painted in Ga. CSX had to contact outside sources because they were too lame to save important information such as this.
Lastly, I dont know one vandal (i dont know any for that matter!) who actually has the ability to mask off the windows, cat logo, and the rest. get the job done (the layers!!), and dried off (in outdoor weather) and look that good.
Naw naw, this was done by CSX, thats over two days work easily by a regular employee. Youd need a flash mob of vandals from L.A. to come out to the right coast and paint that in a night without being caught.
Something fishy going on here!
Aint buying it!
PMR