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Norfolk & Western blue heritage unit debuts on Norfolk Southern
Can’t wait to see the Penn Central unit!
Looks nice and blue but I still like the wine and yellow units they had in the 80’s. Just my take.
I would to see one of these units in maroon and gold.
NS chose the right color scheme for the heritage of N&W. I particularly liked N&W’s “hamburger herald”, and the other N&W paint schemes have roots in some of the other locomotives that will be painted. I just noticed today on AAR’s daily webpage that a Pennsylvania scheme was released in the Tuscan Red. I hope to see the N&W locomotive pulling a load of coal some day.
Just my humble opinion, but this one doesn’t work for me. Passenger equipment looked pretty good in blue, but that was more Wabash than N&W. N&W was coal, and it was black. The black Geeps and Alcos of the early 60s and late 50s with gold lettering and N&W logo on the cab would have been a better scheme for the heritage unit. Still, I say “well done” to NS for taking on this project, and I can’t wait to see these units on the road.
Several of us in the Charlotte, NC area would like to photograph the heritage units. Does anyone know how to find out where and when they will be operating?
Very handsome. I hope it roams the NS system far and wide beyond Tidewater and Roanoke. I can imagine this unit crossing the Ohio River on the route of N&W’s former “Powhatan Arrow.” I can also see it at track speed along NS’s busy Columbus-Bellevue, OH line, acquired by N&W from the PRR in the 1960s (the Pennsy’s former Col-San line to the Sandusky, OH coal docks). But treat us to a look in Pittsburgh, too, please. N&W once served the city over rails now under the new W&LE flag.