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The First Heritage Unit - cn nutbar - 03-30-2018 Back in 1999 Atlas released this special addition RS3 #1949 to celebrate it's 50th anniversary.This may have been the first "Heritage Unit" produced long before other railroads followed the trend Re: The First Heritage Unit - railohio - 03-30-2018 Norfolk Southern painted GP60 No. 4610 for the Southern Railway in the early 1990s. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/uptrain/6308327858">https://www.flickr.com/photos/uptrain/6308327858</a><!-- m --> Re: The First Heritage Unit - Chet - 04-02-2018 Until Atlas brought out their line of RS units with the Kato drive, Athearn locomotives were probably the best bang for the buck. I had a few that I put a lot of work into and ended up having to replace the motors with NWSL can motors to get really good performance out of them. When I saw the RS units and being a fan of Alcos, I thought I would give one a try. I was so impressed with then, I ended up with a dozen of them, RS-1's, RS-3's, RSD-4/5's and RS-11's and custom painted them all for my freelance railroad. They are still running like new today. Here are some of them.