Dave C
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That's Southern Tuxedo paint, not Cresent!TrainNut85 wrote:Its nice to see that NS applied the Southern Railway cresence scheme with the second generation SR paint job to it.
I think it makes logical sense. When N&W diselized, they started with Geeps, did they not? By '56-'57 when the N&W began to phase out steam operations, F units were on their way out as the GP9 was the way to go. From what I read, N&W never owned an F unit until the aquisition of NKP and Wabash, and I don't think any were ever in the maroon scheme. I believe Southern's F units wore Tuxedo for a time. Perhaps NS is trying to be semi-historically acurate? Just my 2 cents.leo28150 wrote:Once again the N&W side of the NS heritage tree gets passed over for the favored Southern colors; what a bunch of crap, not to mention an insult to the N&W guys who will have to run these engines. I suspect the same thing will happen to these units as the 4610 when it travels up on the north end of the system. For those of you who don't know the history of the 4610, it was suggested to have it painted up in Southern green colors to honor the engineers on the Southern side on it's 100 year anniversary of company existence--never mind that the N&W has been around LONGER than the Southern (Yes, the grapes are sour here coming from an ex-N&W guy).
While these units look nice, I think the old N&W passenger maroon and gold would have looked much better and matched the car fleet also.