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News Wire: CSX rolls out unit with Georgia Road decal treatment

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Monday, October 1, 2018 4:04 PM

CHICAGO — CSX Transportation today honored predecessor Georgia Railroad with a modern locomotive featuring the logo of the Peach State railroad famous for its Atlanta-Augusta main line, mixed trains, and sold black diesel paint scheme. Two-yea...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/10/01-csx-rolls-out-unit-with-georgia-road-decal-treatment 

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, October 1, 2018 4:33 PM

Guess the Georgia Road will be the next line CSX puts a 'hard sell' on to get rid of.

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Posted by D.Carleton on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 10:11 AM

Nice but is this paint job really all that hard/expensive to replicate? http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1678154

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Posted by Overmod on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 10:23 AM

D.Carleton
Nice but is this paint job really all that hard/expensive to replicate?

No, but (1) they DID it, and (2) as it says in the comments, "who would have thought a straight black unit would look so good."

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Friday, October 5, 2018 7:26 PM

Overmod

 

 
D.Carleton
Nice but is this paint job really all that hard/expensive to replicate?

 

No, but (1) they DID it, and (2) as it says in the comments, "who would have thought a straight black unit would look so good."

 

It would have been much better in the actual GA all-black scheme.

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