They will be GEVO's. The GP30's in the photo are all museum pieces that were loaned out for the photo shoot. I believe that there is an article in a recent issue of TRAINS about this photo shoot.
Final list and schemes are out on NS's web site! Mix of GEVOs and EMDs. 18 total. EMDs to be painted by EMD. GEs by NS at Juniata and Chatt.
http://www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/Media/images/heritage_images.html
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
These will put the UP heritage units to shame!!
I'm glad that a company like NS didn't spend any money doing those renderings because they look like they were done by a HS kid who just discovered watercolors. Have they ever heard of Adobe Photoshop?
Why is the N&W heritage locomotive painted dark blue when they were black with a white lettering and logos IIRC? I do like the Erie Lackawanna locomotive.
I appreciate the effort but I'd rather they return a SD80MAC to Conrail Quality blue instead.
They're just artist renderings to give you a general idea, calm down it's gonna be OK.
I'm fine and just expressing an opinion with sarcasm. I'm sorry if it came across as anger.
episette I'm glad that a company like NS didn't spend any money doing those renderings because they look like they were done by a HS kid who just discovered watercolors. Have they ever heard of Adobe Photoshop? Why is the N&W heritage locomotive painted dark blue when they were black with a white lettering and logos IIRC? I do like the Erie Lackawanna locomotive. I appreciate the effort but I'd rather they return a SD80MAC to Conrail Quality blue instead.
I guess it's easy to insult things- those are not mechanical renderings for color reproduction, they are simply general renderings to give a basic idea of what they will look like. Perhaps we should complain that the numbers aren't the actual ones they'll be using either, or that all but one of the schemes are mocked up on GE carbodies?? Seriously- let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater here, I for one am glad that they are letting us see the renderings prior to the release of the units (unlike what UP did with their cloak-and-dagger approach to their heritage scheme unveilings). Lastly- the N&W scheme is spot on accurate- it is the scheme the N&W used in the 1960s before the introduction of the black large "NW" scheme-
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=280521&nseq=19
and there is no Erie Lackawanna scheme- that is the original Delaware, Lackawanna and Western scheme. I for one am overjoyed they are doing an Illinois Terminal unit (and secretly hoping it will be an SD70ACe and not an ES44AC- since IT favored EMD products) and not a Penn Central unit.
@Nordique, I guess that I am surprised that in this day of Photoshop and other computer graphic programs that they would use watercolors instead.
It looked like Erie Lackawanna to me, so I'll apologize for that mistake. I am also too young to remember the blue and yellow of the N&W. I remembered waiting on the smoky black high nose N&Ws on the tracks a few miles from my home and automatically assumed that was their only color scheme.
I'm sorry.
With 5 changes in railroads that will be represented since we first learned about this a few days ago, I wonder how many railroads were under consideration.
Too bad they couldn't of done all of them. :)
I always liked the "bow wave" of white on the SD80MACs, but, as an ex-Conrailer, I always thought that writing "Quality" all over everything was a bad idea. It's like putting a sign on a restaurant "Good Food". People know quality when they see it (or eat it). The sign changes nothing. Better to work on actually having it rather than scribbling it all over everything.
Glad they are doing a "straight up" circa 1990 Conrail scheme.
It will be interesting to see how they work the required yellow or white reflective material into the sill for each scheme. Conrail is easy - the reflective white stripe was part of the scheme (and predated the law).
You do realize those renderings are what inspired NS to actually create these heritage engines?
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Per oltmannd's comment: I noticed on the concept watercolors the locomotives seem to have a solid or broken white line on the bottom of the carbodys, I'm assuming that's the "Reflect-O-Stripe" matierial in question. Not too obtrusive at all.
Read the "news" on this post......... March 2
How many ACes and how many ES's are going to be painted, cause the renditions are almost all ES44s
Good Day,
Is this the offical brake down on the NS color schemes on which engines?
Regards,
Swafford
Yes Sir.
I would prefer to see the Erie unit in the black/yellow freight scheme. The two-tone green was Erie's passenger scheme and it looks out of place on a freight loco.
Who wants to be the one to spend money on the unpainted HO Scale models, decals, and paint schemes to show what they will look like as a finished group?
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tpatrick I would prefer to see the Erie unit in the black/yellow freight scheme. The two-tone green was Erie's passenger scheme and it looks out of place on a freight loco.
They are doing the PRR and SOU passenger scheme, too. But, are doing NYC and Nickel Plate freight schemes. Looks like it's just NS's personal preference - there's not any real logic behind it.
They could have done the CNJ in green or "Red Baron", LV in blue and yellow or "snowbird", etc, etc.
I'll take them anyway they care to do them!
Now if we can just get BNSF to do the same......I'd like to see then return of Burlington's "Chinese Red" or FRISCO orange and white.
Let's look at it this way. It's going to cost NS a hell of a lot of money to do this, money they DON'T have to spend. We should just give them a big "thank you" and appreciate what they're doing. As a CNJ fan I think the "Red Baron" scheme would probably look more appropriate on a modern diesel unit than the original tangerine and blue, but I'll take any CNJ scheme they care to give me. One thing's for certain, with the modern paints available the tangerine and blue colors are going to last a lot longer on an NS engine than they ever did on the original F-3s!
I digitally painted this drawing several years ago. I prefer the Erie- Lackawanna in black too!
Drawing by Michael Eby Painted by Frank Swafford
Here are a few more of my painted drawings from last year. I hope everyone enjoys the inventive color schemes and style.
Drawings by Michael Eby Painted by Frank Swafford
http://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/displayForumTopic/content/4245430049422485/reply/4245430050127251#4245430050127251
A Penn Central unit has been added, for a total of 19:
"Conrail" 8098 is now out of the paint booth and out on the road!
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2945994
Photo not mine.
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ns3010 "Conrail" 8098 is now out of the paint booth and out on the road!
And so it begins!
...I like the PC unit, too.
Not to be on a down view but worder which unit will be the first to meet some damage ??
Huh
CSX should really do something similar, same with CN, CP, KCS and BNSF.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
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