CSX yellow nose units

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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when did CSX begin to add yellow noses to units, they added them to all previous CSX schmes and even some presedor paint jobs, like SBD, L&N, C&O (the remaing SD40). Just curious as to when they yellow ends started showing up.

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March 26, 1990

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=-1&TOPIC_ID=39623&REPLY_ID=410790#410790

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i’m not referig to that scheme

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schmes such as this one: old paint but a new yellow nose added

http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/photos/SD40-2/8315CSX-y.jpg

or

http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/photos/RDMT/2210CSX-yg.jpg

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I don’t recall exactly when, but it was shortly after they started the yellow nose 2 (Bright Future – blue, gray, yellow with the slanted nose design) that they started slapping yellow paint on the front end of anything that didn’t have yellow on it already. AFAIK, the only paint schemes that didn’t need the nose job were Chessie and the old Susquehanna B-40-8’s.

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just after they scrapped the stealth scheme.YUK ! early 90s I believe.
stay safe
joe

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ok guys thanks a lot, i love all the CSX paint schmes, even after they had yelow noses added!

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I believe the yellow noses were applied to those units in 1991, right before Chessie power started to die out. Other additions to these units were:

Yellow Nose
Yellow Rear
Yellow Side Sill

And of course, this scheme is known as the “modified” scheme or the “edited” scheme.

March 26, 1990 was when the New Image scheme or widely known as the Bright Future. The initials for this scheme are YN2. YN1 was the modified/edited scheme.

By the way, the yellow nose wasn’t applied to every loco. Take a look at CSX 2779 (I believe), CSX 9120, 9121 and 9122. No yellow nose.

The YN3 or Dark Future scheme was announced on Febuary 9, 2002. Mostly at first this was applied to the GE Wide Cabs. AC4400CWs to be specific…

Of course there are other variations to the YN1 and YN2. YN1 has added dark blue border on the side sills on most CSX GP15-1s still in that scheme.

YN2 has yellow “Hockey Stick” lettering on their CSX AC6000CWs. 633, 666 and 667 I believe, are the only three AC6000CWs still in regular “blue lettered” paint though.

Anyways, back on topic…I’m not sure of the exact date, but I believe it was 1991. Anybody, please correct me if I’m wrong. Thanks

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AS far as my knowledge goes, CSX adopted the paint scheme of the above unit http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/photos/SD40-2/8315CSX-y.jpg in August of 1989, when CSX felt as though they needed to “jazz up” their Stealth scheme. This type of paint scheme is called or reffered to as CSX-y paint. This came before the CSX-bc paint which was called the “Hockey Stick Scheme”. It is also called CSX-yn2.