UP 8379 and 8383 are in Omaha for unveiling with the 844 this weekend. The two units are painted in heritage colors and it is belived they are WP and MP, but they were delievered with blue tarps on them.
Check Trainorders for some pictures.
What does the UP “Heritage” paint look like? Does it have the flag on the side? If it does, I recall that being the “Building America” paint scheme.
Richard
We don’t know what they look like, because they are covered up. No information has been given out about these units. Take a look here:
http://www.railroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7800&page=1&pp=10
People are also saying that these might be military units…only time will tell. We will find out on Saturday.
Sean
Hmmm, the black and yellow pilot plow is new.
Hmm…A return to silver trucks and fuel tank…should be interesting to see what is under those blue tarps. Regardless of how you paint a modern diesel it will still resemble a microwave in a fancy box, just the same, its good to see UP garner some positive exposure.
Dave
It’s been confirmed by UP that the two SD70ACe’s are painted in MoPAC and WP. Should be cool to see them unvieled.
One of the articles stated, these are the first of four of the heritage series. Two more units are being tracked that were delivered in primer.
Any speculation??? The first two are subnumbered 1982 and 1983 for the year the WP and the MP were merged.
The SP was in 1996 and the C&NW was in 1988???
The new units will probably end up wearing the merge year numbers much like the 2001 and 2002 blue SD70M Olympic units.
Let’s hope Tower 55 will build them.
From what I’ve heard, UP ordered paint for an MKT (Katy) unit next. SP, SSW and CN&W will follow.
Bigboy, do you know which version of Katy paint – green and yellow, or old-school red?
What about the Rio Grande? Anyone think they will do a loco in that scheme? I think it would be nice and am sure others would like it as well.
Just got some additional news, there are a total of five heritage units pending. MKT-yellow/green, MP-blue, C&NW yellow-green lighting stripe, WP Green-orange, SP scarlet-red. D&RGW was not selected for recreation. Ok what are the ones at Omaha?
My source states these units are not historically correct, some liberties were taken with the paint jobs, but overall they convey the history of their chosen roads. The units wil be numbered to reflect the year of merger.
Dave
Since the UP is painting the locomotives, they are by definition “correct”. They may not use the historical painting diagram.
But then again finding two BNSF engines in the same consist with the same paint scheme is pretty hard. The person in charge of BNSF schemes must have been raised by the person that was in charge of paint for the LV. They had a scheme for every 3 or 4 locomotives too.
Dave H.
Really? There’s this little thing among BNSF fans called ‘Dash 9 boredom’ and it just makes you sick of GE’s in Heritage 2 colors. Visit BNSF’s transcon to see what I mean.
From what I heard, Rio Grande wasn’t selected because it was merged with SP, not UP. I think the same goes for SSW too (never mind my previous post about that). The MKT unit will be yellow and green.
When are they scheduled to be unveiled?
Just a small correction; C&NW was merged into UP in 1995
Thanks for the correct date as I could not remember the date and thought it was in the late eighties, with a question mark?? I should have thought about the fact I have a book with the C&NW AC4400’s in it that came out in 1994?? Boy, does time fly!
I sure liked the looks of that paint scheme on the AC4400’s and the Dash 9’s.
I sure like C&NW AC4400’s and Dash-9s too. I’m looking forward to seeing C&NW paint on and SD70ACe.
Sure these “heritage” paint jobs aren’t just a clever way to keep those fallen-flag trademarks current for licensing purposes…?
hehehehe[}:)]
The C&NW Dash nines were so attractive when new that I purchased one of the Kato units just for that reason. It is never used since I don’t model the era, but it was great looking. The Dash 9 Kato model had the original side frame type truck on them which was good for the first forty units, but the later units got the new side frame.
It will be interesting to see if they actually have the stripes and the colors to replicate the most striking units painted for any road.