Norfolk Southern has just announced their America 250 locomotive fleet.
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See this is how itâs done! Especially with 8096 and 8143! Are they just using stock renderings with these then, because 8118 is an AC4400CW with the radial trucks, and as far as Iâm aware, NS doesnât have any AC4400CWs on their roster anymore with the CEFX leasers either sold off or rebuilt and the two (Three?) CMQ AC4400s, but I donât believe those had the radial trucks either, though I may be wrong. Anyways, even aside from that, the road number 8118 is occupied by an ES44AC, isnât it?
The video thumbnail locos look correct - 3 SD70ACeâs and 3 ES44ACâs, but the some of the individual loco images are whacked. No. 250 looks like some sort of âES44ACeâ. Front half is a GE and the rear section is from an SD70ACe. All of the GEâs seem to have two sets of headlights. 8118 is clearly an AC4400-based model, which is incorrect based on the road number. Perhaps someone at NS let AI render the detail views.
I was looking at that earlier, but it almost looks more like a GEVO with the radiators off of an ALCO; they donât look as thick as an SD70ACeâs, but more like this one model, I canât for the life of me remember the designation and as a result canât find any pictures, but the C636 is somewhat like it:
Though yeah, for a railroad, I donât know how these goofs got by if I, a railfan not affiliated with the company, which is a railroad company btw noticed it but they didnât, or it makes me wonder if they did notice it but just didnât care, like if they thought no one would notice it or if they thought it was more of an emphasis on the paint scheme(s) than the actual locomotive.
Actually, now Iâm thinking about it, the radiators almost seem like a tunnel motor:
Looks like an SD70ACe/SD70M-2 radiator section and dynamic brake hood to me.
The video clearly indicates that NS 250 will be the former NS 1184, which is an SD70ACe.
Unless, of course, NS is going to start a new Wabtec repowering program for their SD70ACe fleet. 
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I donât know, maybe itâs the stripes on the flared section specifically of the radiators thatâs throwing me off, as it looks mostly flat, or at a slight angle to me
I also havenât watched the video, as it doesnât work for me on this device
See if the YouTube video works
This one just shows this:
though I think Iâll be able to make it work in a few hours, on a different device
Are you trying to use a Chromebook? A dedicated âschoolâ machine? There may be double secret probation nannyware keeping you awayâŚ
Does anyone here know how to tell why chrome has blocked this page?
Nah it wasnât that, it musta been something like that though, my organization
Not all people employed by todayâs Class 1 railroads have any REAL association in their jobs with reality of railroading with locomotives moving cars on tracks. Especially when you get into a part of the organization that is dealing with artwork. Artists are a special category of people - being able to see something and create a two dimensional image of what the saw - maybe in reality, maybe in the abstract and maybe in something that takes elements from both reality and abstraction. They may have no ârealâ interest in railroads and just being an individual that needed a job a
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Hereâs a screen capture from the video. And, yes, the grills under the radiator fans are flat instead of angled as they are on real SD70ACe.
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Itâs just a picture to show a paint scheme.
You are looking way too much into it.
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Some wag on Facebook dubbed NS 250 an SD70Ai. 
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Well yeah, but I assumed they would be able to know something as big as that, as theyâre still somewhat railraod affiliated soooo
Not all, in fact most, rail employees are not rail fans. Those involved in the âback officeâ trade would be equally âat homeâ at an insurance company or Wall Street brokerage. They are working for the money, nothing more and nothing less. In fact, at least on CSX, all the departments that were not DIRECTLY involved with railroad operations were removed from Railroad Retirement and placed in Social Security - in the short term they ended up with a few more dollars in their take home pay but when retirement time comes they have a seriously degraded Social Security retirement as compared to what Railroad Retirement pays.
There will be plenty of prototype pictures of the actual locomotives when they get painted. I will wait until then to comment if there is some peculiar configuration.
I get a perfectly good idea what the paint schemes will look like.
NS has just released 1776 from the paint shop in Altoona, along with a debut video. Looks very nice. My only quibble is the small road number on the side of the cab that isnât centered with the cab windows.
At 0:16 an SD60E can be seen getting painted in a special scheme on the left. The striping kind of looks like that on NS 6920, the Veterans unit.
Nice photo of NS 1776 in action near Toledo, OH. The engine and train are headed west to meet up with UP 4014 in Chicago.
NS 955 | Millbury, OH by Dawson Wolff, on Flickr
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