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to receive the red, black, and yellow colors of the “original” Norfolk Southern Railway’s Baldwin roadswitchers. Also in the queue at Altoona were NS 8102 and 8104 awaiting painting into Pennsylvania Railroad Tuscan red with gold pinstripes and Lehigh Valley Cornell red, respectively. These units will have been released by the time you read this. Norfolk Southern announced on March 15
that a 19th railroad would be represented — Penn Central. Don’t laugh. In a twisted way, PC might have been the most influential rail- road in recent history; its game-changing fail- ure in 1970 drove home the urgent need for the rail industry’s regulatory reform and re- lief from the burden of both commuter and long-distance passenger service. Penn Cen- tral’s bankruptcy paved the way for Conrail’s later success and laid the groundwork for the industry’s current vitality. The Norfolk Southern Railway unit was originally to have been an SD70ACe which would have been painted at the factory by Electro-Motive Diesel in Muncie, Ind., but NS decided to have EMD paint the Penn Central unit and to make up an ES44AC as the NSRY locomotive at Chattanooga. At press time, the ten EMD’s (Nos. 1065-1074) were under con- struction, with delivery expected to begin in May. The SD70ACe’s will be painted for New
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York Central; Erie; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; Wabash; Virginian; Reading; Central of New Jersey; Illinois Terminal; Savannah & Atlanta; and as previously mentioned, Penn Central. All 19 heritage units should be finished by
June 1. To view artwork of all the proposed heritage schemes (except PC), see page 21 of the May R&R. You can also follow the fleet on a new Yahoo! group at
http://finance.groups.
yahoo.com/group/NorfolkSouthernHeritage Units/.— WALT LANKENAU
CASEY THOMASON / NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP.
MICHAEL HARDING
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