Final NS Heritage Units Roster

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Link to Paint Schemes for modelers who want to get head start with painting your locomotives.

From Trains.com news:

Norfolk Southern provides more details about heritage unitsPublished: March 1, 2012

NORFOLK, Va. – Norfolk Southern Thursday announced the builders for its 18 heritage units that will appear in commemorative schemes of historic diesels.

The railroad also acknowledged that while the idea for heritage units has been suggested by many, it was Virginia Museum of Transportation Artist In Residence Andy Fletcher’s drawings that prompted CEO Wick Moorman to give the go ahead for the project.

The first units will be delivered in March, and all units are expected to be riding the rails by June 1, Norfolk Southern’s 30th anniversary.

Each paint scheme will be modified to fit contemporary locomotives while staying as true as possible to the original designs. Norfolk Southern employees in Altoona, Pa., and Chattanooga, Tenn., will paint GE ES44AC locomotives, while the EMD SD70ACe units will be painted at Progress Rail Services’ facility in Muncie, Ind.

The units are:

  • Central of Georgia Railway, GE.
  • Central Railroad of New Jersey, EMD.
  • Conrail, GE.
  • Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, EMD.
  • Erie, EMD.
  • Illinois Terminal Railroad, EMD.
  • Interstate, GE.
  • Lehigh Valley Railroad, GE.
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So there will be a Jersey Central Sd70ace? My life is complete…

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So who will be the first in HO or N to provide these?

What about Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines and Penn Central???

Seriously, hats off to NS for doing these.
Chris

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No No No… “YOU complete ME”. LOL

I wonder which of these the model railroad companies with start offering.

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Official NS notice: http://nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/Media/News%20Releases/2012/ns_heritage.html

Official NS artwork (shows all units as GEVO’s, but you get the idea): http://www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/Media/images/heritage_images.html

I was so happy when I saw the official notice on another forum! Thanks again, NS!!! [bow]

It seems that when two roads were merged, they are doing the creating roads, but not the created. Hence why there is DL&W and Erie, but no EL; Pennsylvania and NYC, but no PC; Pennsylvania and Reading, but no PRSL; etc. The only major merger railroad is Conrail, since it was so significant.

As for models, I would say that Athearn will be first to do the SD70ACe’s. They already have the molding, and have been known to do “fantasy” units in the past, so they have no reason not to…
For the ES44AC’s, it would have to be Intermountain, since they make the only GEVO’s in HO.

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This is great, glad they are doign a CNJ and Reading. I guess I will have to do some railfannign and try to catch them coming through Reading once they hit the rails. Not a huge fan of the green and yellow scheme, but having it carry the Bee Line Service slogan makes up for that.

–Randy

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Well, I see 3 I would like to have, but I’ll have to settle for one when the time comes IF they are produced with sound which surely they will be.

Central of Georgia Railway, GE.

Savannah & Atlanta Railway, EMD.

Southern Railway, GE.

I have friends that will jump on the Illinois Terminal, the Virginian and the Pennsylvania.

Jarrell

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Stayin’ south of the Mason-Dixon line, Jarrell? [(-D]

Tom

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[:O] well, maybe next time I’ll…

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Why no D&H ? It’s the longest continually running railroad in the US.

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Because they’re not part of NS? All the locos are for railroads that went into NS through various mergers and buyouts.

–Randy

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D&H is now part of Canadian Pacific.

And CP has several GP382’s in D&H’s paint scheme.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=390855&nseq=1