Exciting weekend! Have many questions, so will start with the first one:
Norfolk Southern in Primer. Gray Primer with NS and 7533 painted on it.
Are they that short of power that they let this puppy out without her dress on?
Or are they taking if for a test drive before they paint it?
I researched Google, but only found more in the 7500 series that looked very similar to this one.
More to come!
mookie
yep things are good for ns so they need to get the power out asap.last time I looked on the ns locomotive it was a horsey not a puppy.
stay safe
Joe
Joe, since Mookie usually sees pumpkins and not horsies nor puppies we will need to look past her slip this time, and what’s more she could not have known it was supposed to be a horsie since it seems like all she sees from NS are horsies without their horse blankets (aka paint jobs) showing their horsie image.
Hey - she sees celery too! (Green and White) and saw some really badly painted blue jobbies which will be a future question.
But never anything like the Gray Ugly! Seems a shame to send anything out in that outfit!
oh by the way csx has some gray primers out there with yellow stripes on the front.
stay safe
Joe
Jen: I have seen {maybe that engine}, but doubtful, over the weekend…Sadly, I didn’t take note of it’s number. It was in gray primer with it’s numbers stencilled on it and heading west on our Frankfort Line here on NS…But I believe I’ve seen it pass through here once before. Again, I didn’t check the numbers. This sighting, it was in a consist of 2 engines and it was the trailing one. The Frankfort Line here does have a fair amount of business so I have no idea how far these engines may run as they pass west bound through here.
Another note on the same line…Some of you may have noted as I commented before of every few day a new cut of cars…mostly covered hoppers are dropped off and placed on a siding and then the next day or so they are gone…and now a new bit of change in addition to that…A cut of cars with engines connected…running, but headlight not on and it may remain there for hours or most of a day…and the last one was made up of almost all white colored tank cars, and then it was gone…and noted last evening again the siding, or passing track, {not sure what is correct}, was once again occupied with a cut of covered hoppers…No power connected.
Mookie,
In the last few years, NS has been in the habit of ordering new power in primer only. Someone, somewhere figures it is cheaper (or keeping the shops open and busy, is more cost effective, than paying severance pay) to paint the locomotives themselves. IIRC, they take delivery of the GE units at Erie,Pa and the units roam until they pass through one of the shop towns (Altoona, PA and Chatanooga, TN) and the train can spare the power. The number of the locomotive you observed sounds like an SD70M-2. Off hand, I don’t remember where GM units are delivered, but they roam like the GE’s until they pass one of NS’s paint booths.
Miss Mook,
Did you avert your eyes as NS’s very own Lady Godiva rode through town? [(-D]
Don’t be silly Mookie! EVEREYBODY knows that the primered units are in anticipation of The Big Merger[;)]
Madame La Mook - I’m shocked and dismayed to find out you’ve been watching naked horsies. For shame! For shame! The only decent thing to have done would have been to have averted your eyes, if you couldn’t throw a blanket on the poor thing.
A girl has to do what a girl has to do.
That poor engine was going by so fast a rope would have been better! It ran like it was embarrassed along with the other two engines.
Is this something all class 1’s do? I don’t ever remember seeing BNSF in primer.
You mean you didn’t lasso those horsies?
Was allowed up in the cab a couple of years ago on one of NS’s primer green locomotives. It was only three weeks out of the factory and was the first time I ever smelled “new locomotive” smell. Whoever got ahold of yours, Madame La Mook, must have had an artistic bent… the road numbers on mine were spray painted on, not stencilled.
Erik
…“Stencilled”…Was the word I used…
NS was short of power, they took possession of an order sans final paint to relieve the shortage.
Trains had a short blurb about it two or three years ago.
The idea was they would have them painted one at a time as they were shopped for any major repair.
So far, still quite a few running around, most got the dime store stencil and spray can number system…
Ed
That was a GE GEVO unit. It’s environmentally friendly.
Some NS units will wander the system for up to a year in primer before they make it to the paint shop. Had one just the other day that was a year old and still in primer, I was wondering if they do anymore for preparation of the surface before painting it after being exposed to the elements for that long.
I don’t know all the details, but I have seen grey primered units on the NS for 6 to 8 years. I don’t know if they order them all “necked” or just some, sounds perverse, but I am sure somebody at NS has a good reason for “necked” power[:O][:O][:O][%-)][%-)]
Sam
Sometimes,those “nekked” horsies make it all the way to California before someone can lasso them to paint on the horse blanket[:0][:)]!
Back in the days, it was customary for UP to get its new locomotives painted, but not lettered. They did their own decals. UP did get four primered-only SD70ACEs last year, but for a good reason. Looking forward to the next three sometime this year!
As someone else mentioned, CSX got some primered units recently–first time for them, I think. Haven’t heard of any of the other railroads doing this, besides the three mentioned.
Hi, Mookie.
Is this: http://photobucket.com/albums/e229/GN-Rick/?action=view¤t=PrototypeRRPhotos081.jpg what you are questioning?
I shot this one in Everett, Washington on Feb 10, 2006. Acording to roster
data I’ve seen, it’s been running around over a year with no clothes on. Very
strange for it to have wandered so far away from it’s home. And, yes, the others
are right, it is a GE ES44DC GEVO (or however these darned new models
are labeled).
