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CSX guy, the switcher does not have a backwards paint job. The front of it is painted the way all CSX locomotives are with the "Bright Future" paint scheme. My friends and I were really excited when they announced a new paint scheme a year or two ago. The dark blue with the yellowish lettering hints at CSX's C&O past. I live in Huntington, WV. where one of the major CSX shops is located. It started out, of course, as a C&O facility. In don't know if the new paint scheme has a name. I do know that CSX says that it may take 12 years before all of their locomotives are repainted. The practice at the Huntington shops has been to repaint a locomotive when it is overhauled. I'm sure that is not always true, but in general that is the way they do it. I have three friends who work in the Huntington shops. The worst paint scheme was probably the "Stealth" scheme. It was called that because the engines were not as visible as they should have been. I think it was the first paint scheme. The locomotive was painted Seaboard Gray with Blue lettering. Where I live you see both CSX and NS trains. Conrail engines are common on both roads but not forever. At the Huntington shops, they have several old Conrail engines sitting around waiting to be repainted.
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