NS Heritage Fleet Thread
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While not having the "wow" factor compared to the others - Penn Central is by far the most historically significant livery out of them all. Think about how different things would have been had PC worked - C&O and N&W were looking to merge out of self defense for example, obviously Conrail would have not occured etc. On a macro view, if PC would have succeeded, how much longer (if at all) would it have taken to see the need for the deregulation of the industry?
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Sorry Z it is missing the DLW unit also. Just two ahead of the IT unit.~Z~ wrote:And here's NS's page with all of the heritage units and a picture of each one completed, except for the Illinois Terminal that was just released: http://www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/ ... comotives/
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Wow, the IT unit is sweet looking. Kind of hard to pick a favorite though. IT is in the top three for me. With NYC and original NS in the top three as well.
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Does anyone know when they are being pulled from Muncie, and if so, is there a time frame?
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According to the NS Heratige Yahoo groupe, there is a NS engineer on there that works the local that switches EMD, and he said tommrow they are supposed to pick up all the units there, in including the DLW unit.
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Love the \RADIO/ detail on the cab side.
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Me too. What's the history behind that?AC60CW wrote:Love the \RADIO/ detail on the cab side.
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There was a time when being "radio equipped" was the cutting edge technology. They were able to contact trains directly in case of changes to orders. So if they needed to stop and pick up something at the last minute. They could do so. This gave railroad as well as many other industries the dispatching abilities...instead of having to wait for them to check in or finish a route. You would see the graphic "radio equipped"was on many thing during this time.
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GREAT JOB NORFOLK SOUTHERN (every single "Heritage Unit" is great)!!!!
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They are going to need a fleet of vac trucks to keep the foam under control. As cool as it is, im not looking forward to every forum I visit being flooded with 1000 of the same photos of this event for the next 2 weeks.
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