Ah well.

Hey Ralph there will be a Penn Central unit. NS gave in and now they will have 19 Heritage units instead of 18.

The Conrail unit is done. It is in Altoona. NS 8098 in the Blue Can Opener. A friend sent me a picture.
Charlie

Charlie B Wrote:The Conrail unit is done. It is in Altoona. NS 8098 in the Blue Can Opener. A friend sent me a picture.
Charlie

What you waiting for, post it up, I need some reference photos!!!

It's not my picture to post, And the NS only appears inside the cab so the crews don't confuse it with a shared assets unit.
It looks the same as the first wide cabs delivered in the CR scheme in the late 90's.

Shouldn't have mentioned it then

Then I probably shouldn't mention

I also seen a picture of the CR Heritage unit. She looks pretty nice from the photo I seen.

Can we post a link to the source post of the photo? http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPic...id=2945994 ...is this OK...PLEASE take it down if it's wrong...Bob C.

We both got the same email, I figured it was posted somewhere, just couldn't find it.
Charlie

Found a link for the opposite side, <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150627982784315&set=a.111336769314.98388.111336324314&type=1&theater">http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... =1&theater</a><!-- m -->

I just got a new pair o' specs ! :geek:

Here's food for thought, NS 8098 & 8099 came out of the plant together. One went to altoona ( 8098 ) and the other went to Chatt, TN. Juniata managed to paint her and have her outside before the Chattanoga shops. Juniata is still holding up to its name for sure. Now which place would you rather have paint the locomotives?

Ok Mr Kato...Norfolk Southern is painting them...time to announce you production plan to offer them to the modeling world.

Can't wait to see the Savannah tuxedo scheme and the Southern green unit.

LiveSteamer Wrote:Here's food for thought, NS 8098 & 8099 came out of the plant together. One went to altoona ( 8098 ) and the other went to Chatt, TN. Juniata managed to paint her and have her outside before the Chattanoga shops. Juniata is still holding up to its name for sure. Now which place would you rather have paint the locomotives?

Quality, not quantity... In all fairness to the Tenn. fellows, the Conrail job is one color, and vinyl lettering and vinyl logos. the Southern scheme is at least 2 colors, and it takes time for paint to dry enough for the additional masking, as well as time to paint. The Conrail unit was probably in Altoona sooner too.
Charlie