Go to the 5:35 Mark in this video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__7Vz0P8tM0. Pause it at that mark and look on NS SD70M-2 #2737. I see what looks like Penn Central Logo’s on the NS Logo. If anybody knows about this, What is this all about, cause I’ve never seen that on an NS Engine before??? These are not my videos.
http://rlv.zcache.com/penn_central_railway_company_logo_sticker-p217045824946687677qjcl_400.jpg
I didn’t see it. Could well be an optical illusion, since an SD70 wouldn’t have been around in PC days, IIRC.
I could see two logos that look like the PC worm in the top part of the NS.
Looks to me like someone has been drawing in the dirt on the side of the engine. It does look like a pair of PC logos.
Noah
I see three PC logos myself. One is on the ‘S’ and looks very dull. Interesting find!
NOTE - does this help any? It’s the same unit.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1871106
Any chance the access doors were orighnally on a PC unit and were salvaged to be put on this unit? Measurements would mean everything.
“Hey Joe - look at these weird stencils I found in the bushes in the storage room of the shops! Let’s put 'em on that SD70 and see how many threads get posted on the internet about them!”
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OK, now I see them.
Pretty sure they’re as a result of a stencil - they’re awfully consistent (and well done) to be done by hand.
I kind of like blue streak 1’s theory of ‘salvaged from an ex-PC unit’ - esp. because if you look at the photo linked by alstom on rrpicturearchives.net, just above and behind the horse’s neck and below the horns is a significant rust blotch, such as might be caused by an engineroom fire of some kind. That it shows up there, too, on an unrelated site as well as on the moving video of the 1st link of the Original Post, leads me to believe that it’s not a ‘Photo-Shop’ job or an alteration of the image, etc.
But, as far as I know and can recall, PC didn’t usually use logos this small on the sides of units, or on hood doors - only on the noses and under the cab windows, etc. Take a look at the 2nd linked video - Green Frog Videos’ Penn Central Volume-5 - in the Original Post and you’ll see what I mean - all of the PC logos on the sides of the units are several feet tall.
Also, each of those PC logos on the 2737 are in slightly different locations/ heights on the doors, and each have different width/ height aspects or ratios - the one in the middle in the widest, and the one on the right is the narrowest. Finally, the width of the stripe doesn;t seem quite right - a little too narrow - when compared to the in the linked image of the Penn Central logo in the Orignal Post. So maybe TrainManTy’s theory is closer to the truth.
Boredom + railfan employee + dirty engine = strange things.
I’ve personally seen a slug wearing a PRR keystone and a former RDG GP40 once again with the Diamond scrawled on the dirt. Some people really need a life. [:-^]
Docked up photo and video possibly
My vote goes to an old stencil and a clean rag.
Put stencil against unit, wipe clean, repeat… By the third time the rag was probably pretty grungy, so it didn’t wipe as clean.
Chuck
From what I can see I have to agree with Chuck, and once that engine hits the wash rack the dirt stenciling is gone. Maybe done by an employee who is a fan of the PC or a disgruntled employee making a statement (???).
Kinda hard to tell, it does look like PC heralds (especially the one right in front of the horse’s eyes). However it could be something else but just happened to be caught in the right light / right angle.
It could be a railroader doing something for fun. As noted recently in another thread, there was apparently one RR employee who whenever he saw one of the early sixties GN cars with the standing and pointing cartoon goat would add…um, “something” to make Rocky “anatomically correct”. IIRC one of the GN Color Guide books has a pic of such an “alteration”.