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Monongahela #8025 heritage ES44AC

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Monongahela #8025 heritage ES44AC
Posted by Lyon_Wonder on Saturday, June 16, 2012 2:00 PM

Monongahela heritage ES44AC #8025 has been painted at NS's shop in Chattanooga.

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Posted by caldreamer on Saturday, June 16, 2012 5:08 PM

I Like the paint scheme, and light grey really allows you to see the details of  the ES44AC's..

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Posted by BaltACD on Saturday, June 16, 2012 5:12 PM

gsrrman

I Like the paint scheme, and light grey really allows you to see the details of  the ES44AC's..

The light gray also lets it become invisible in the river fogs that inhabit the Monongahela River valley (and other river valley's for that matter).

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Posted by Milepost 266.2 on Saturday, June 16, 2012 8:57 PM

BaltACD

 

 gsrrman:

 

I Like the paint scheme, and light grey really allows you to see the details of  the ES44AC's..

 

 

The light gray also lets it become invisible in the river fogs that inhabit the Monongahela River valley (and other river valley's for that matter).

 

Like NS black is such a great safety color...

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Posted by zugmann on Saturday, June 16, 2012 9:02 PM

Needs a yellow beacon.

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Posted by Andrew Falconer on Sunday, June 17, 2012 1:20 AM

They can always repaint the graphic scheme in the neon green and neon yellow colors of ILLINOIS TERMINAL.Big Smile

 

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Posted by BaltACD on Sunday, June 17, 2012 6:59 AM

Milepost 266.2

 BaltACD:

 

 gsrrman:

 

I Like the paint scheme, and light grey really allows you to see the details of  the ES44AC's..

 

 

The light gray also lets it become invisible in the river fogs that inhabit the Monongahela River valley (and other river valley's for that matter).

 

 

Like NS black is such a great safety color...

Surprisingly - black is more visible in those conditions, not the best but better than gray.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Monday, June 18, 2012 6:48 AM

Not to take anything away from NS 8025, but I believe that only the Super-7's were painted in these colors.  In what colors were the GP38-2's and the S12's painted?  I exclude the Sharks since they were re-lettered without being repainted or renumbered.

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Posted by tatans on Monday, June 18, 2012 12:49 PM

Is that the original color of Monon? I don't think I"ve ever see a grey steam lococmotive?

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, June 18, 2012 1:29 PM

tatans

Is that the original color of Monon? I don't think I"ve ever see a grey steam lococmotive?

Monon and Monongahela are different fallen flag carriers.  Monon operated primarily in Indiana, Monongahela operated in Pennsylvania.

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Posted by Andrew Falconer on Monday, June 18, 2012 4:47 PM

tatans

Is that the original color of Monon? I don't think I"ve ever see a grey steam lococmotive?

 

MONON was merged into the L&N.

L&N was merged into the Seaboard System and CSXT.

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