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<p>I'd say a good rule of thumb would be about 10-15 years. I know Conrail still had some old patched Penn Central locos roaming around until the mid 80s. By then anything that hadn't been repainted was either scrapped or sold to another railroad. Some of their freight cars were still rolling in older paint schemes with only CR reporting marks and numbers added to them through When Conrail was split up amongst CSX and Norfolk Southern. I think it took CSX and Norfolk Southern about 13 years to repaint all the Conrail engines they were gonna keep. Equipment that's sittin' in the paint shop is equipment that ain't out on the rails makin' money so stuff gets repainted whenever time and capital allow for it. </p>
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