NS 6650

oskar · October 31, 2004, 7:55am

I have seen this a couple times then I saw this yesterday on 191NS 6650 was pached like a CR. is the paint falling off 6650 are why was it pached its a ex GFS or something like that.

any help needed

kevin

UPTRAIN · October 31, 2004, 11:28am

What…slow down…talk streight, then somebody may be able to answer ya.

oskar · October 31, 2004, 12:21pm

what I ment was dose any one know why 6650 is patched

kevin

Randy_Stahl · October 31, 2004, 1:06pm

What do you mean by patched ?
Randy

oskar · October 31, 2004, 1:41pm

on one side it’s patched dose any one know what color GFS was

kevin

Anonymous · November 1, 2004, 7:01pm

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=14813

MT6 973 also has a patch like this.

UPTRAIN · November 1, 2004, 7:44pm

Hmm, never seen that before.

rrnut282 · November 2, 2004, 11:35am

That’s different. Maybe it’s an experiment with the decaling of the engine number. IIRC, GFS was a component of SOU before the merger, like CNO&TP and certain locomotives still use those reporting marks. Funny, I haven’t seen any NKP, WAB N&W, LE&W reporting marks on NS locos.