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Odd Color
Posted by UPJohn on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:39 PM
I recently saw a picture of a CSX GP40 painted orange with CSX painted in black on the side. I was wondering what the history is behind this engine and were any others painted in this scheme because it would make an interesting model (i model n scale)

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Posted by ericsp on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 8:42 PM
CSX assigned some locomotives to MOW duty, they were painted orange. I don't how many where assigned or if any are still so assigned.

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Posted by ndbprr on Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:10 AM
They are assigned to Maintenance but can be used for road work also when needed. I believe NS does the same thing painting them very light gray. The logic escapes me unless they are the dogs and they don't want to risk them hauling loads unless they have to.
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Posted by underworld on Friday, March 25, 2005 11:10 PM
I know I've seen some MOW rolling stock in that scheme so that does make sense.

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Posted by csxengineer98 on Sunday, March 27, 2005 3:53 AM
the csx pumkins as they where known are all gone... might be a stragler here and thier..but the fleet is history... most MOW power now is just reguler csx power...mother and slug sets...gp38s 40s and -7 GEs...
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