what you people dont know…or fail to realize is…that this “new” paint idea came from the shops in huntington WV…the shop people came up with it… and it was aggreed on by managment as the “new” look… now knowing that shop people came up with it…it might have been some kind of contest that shop people where involved in…and this was the idea what won…who knows what the other ideas where…if infact it was a contest… althow the main reason it was adopted as the “new” scheme was cost…a saveings of $600 per unit in painting costs verses the old scheme…and when you own a fleet of some 3000 or what ever it is units that csx infacts owns…thats a saveings of 1,800,000 in paint expences alone…and a saveings of that size always looks good to the bottom line…
also i use the term “new” becouse its been around for about 3 years now…
csx engineer
I like it, I look at it like this CSX is combination of rail companies that it has merged with but now its one company. They will probly never revert to the old logos or paint but that is and will always be the case. As it was stated somewhere else in the forums they answer to the stock holders at the end of the day weather I like it or not.[2c]