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Re: Added some detail to the blue boxes - Lester Perry - 04-27-2010 Hey I just discovered that the new paint with the gold is closer to one of the parent companies than the previous. Which one could it be? Re: Added some detail to the blue boxes - Puddlejumper - 04-27-2010 Lester Perry Wrote:Puddlejumper Wrote:Oh snap!... shots fired!! Indeed it does... this is why I live my (model RR) life in the earlier part of the century when the PRR controlled the N&W and Wabash, went head to head with the Garrett road (B&O) and usually triumphed... and the C&O was a Van Swerigan road along with NKP and PM. Re: Added some detail to the blue boxes - Puddlejumper - 04-27-2010 Lester Perry Wrote:Hey I just discovered that the new paint with the gold is closer to one of the parent companies than the previous. Which one could it be? I would say the current scheme is just the C&O with a change of the hood letters... Re: Added some detail to the blue boxes - Lester Perry - 04-27-2010 Puddlejumper Wrote:I would say the current scheme is just the C&O with a change of the hood letters... You got it change the S to & and the X to O and you have 21st century C&O. Long live the Chessie cat .
![]() Re: Added some detail to the blue boxes - Puddlejumper - 04-27-2010 I did think it was neat to see CSX 4617 (still in C&O paint) coupled with a newly painted CSX dark future unit. Talk about coming full circle. Unfortunately the 4617 got repainted shortly after. Re: Added some detail to the blue boxes - Lester Perry - 04-27-2010 Did you get any pics? Re: Added some detail to the blue boxes - Green_Elite_Cab - 04-27-2010 Lester Perry Wrote:Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:CSX 6420 was a C&O unit, not a conrail one. The truth DOES hurt!I just took an old Conrail shell and modified it keeping the Conrail number Check this <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://crcyc.railfan.net/locos/emd/sd402/sd402rost.html">http://crcyc.railfan.net/locos/emd/sd402/sd402rost.html</a><!-- m --> it does list that as a Conrail number. My technical mistake. Also as I said before the C in CSX is Chessie. Well, thats an interesting paradox. CSX 6420 is a GP40-2, the Conrail 6420 was a SD40-2. If thats how your conrail model came, than that means there was issues with it before hand. Luckily, CSX 4420 IS a conrail GP40-2. if you changed the 6 to a 4, you'd be in the win. That said, its still an awesome unit. Lester Perry Wrote: Technically CSX got the New York Central side of conrail (and some Reading), not so much PRR, much of which (and also the majority of Conrail) going to Norfolk Southern. everything else you say appears to be on target. Re: Added some detail to the blue boxes - Lester Perry - 04-27-2010 If I remember correctly NS got 51% of the rolling stock and 49% of the trackage. CSX got 51% of the trackage and 49% of rolling stock. The power was split 50 50 as a this one for you(CSX) and that one for (NS) etc. CSX got the North East Corridor not including Amtrak shared NS got Amtrak shared. Re: Added some detail to the blue boxes - tomustang - 04-27-2010 Lester Perry Wrote:If I remember correctly NS got 51% of the rolling stock and 49% of the trackage. CSX got 51% of the trackage and 49% of rolling stock. The power was split 50 50 as a this one for you(CSX) and that one for (NS) etc. CSX got the North East Corridor not including Amtrak shared NS got Amtrak shared. 58/42 Split, right through everything. Track, stock, and locos Re: Added some detail to the blue boxes - Lester Perry - 04-28-2010 OK I am close on everything. Not bad though for someone who has lost their mind. By the way, if anyone see's one laying around grab it I don't care if its mine I'll take it. Re: Added some detail to the blue boxes - eightyeightfan1 - 04-28-2010 Lester Perry Wrote:OK I am close on everything. Not bad though for someone who has lost their mind. By the way, if anyone see's one laying around grab it I don't care if its mine I'll take it.Kinda reminds me of that classic scene from Young Frankenstien. "What was the name on the jar?" "Abby" Abby what?" Abby Normal...or something like that." Re: Added some detail to the blue boxes - Triplex - 04-28-2010 Quote:These two units swapped doors some time back, but the reason is beyond me. They must have both been receiving heavy repairs, in the same shop, at the same time, for something like this to happen.I think that's the first time I've seen both ends of the same door swap. |