NS Heritage Units - With Images - Combined Thread

[SharkNose]

I posted some other photos of these in this week's Proto Photo, but I thought a more detailed story would be appropriate here...

Monday, May 7, 2012 - 11:58 AM. NS Norfolk and Western 8103 is the 2nd unit pulling a halted coal drag east on track 2 as seen from the platform at Cresson, Pennsylvania as an intermodal runs by on track 1:



Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 2:21 PM. NS Nickel Plate Road 8100 trails with another coal drag east on track 1 as seen on a gloomy day from the front porch of the Station Inn, Cresson, Pennsylvania:



I was wondering if I would see any Heritage Units at all during my trip and was very happy to have caught two different ones. The Nickel Plate unit ran by Cresson again on Thursday, May 10 with another coal train. I was told the Lehigh Valley unit has been seen hauling coal past Cresson as well.

Larger photos of above:

8103: NS Norfolk and Western
8100: NS Nickel Plate Road

[Philip H]

ya know, I MAY just have to break my no more Locos rule for the NKP version . . .

[SharkNose]

Ain't it a beaut? We knew exactly which one it was from a distance! 

[Specter3]

Seen this yet?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
May 17, 2012 
Norfolk Southern Heritage locomotives to gather in North Carolina 
for July 4 ˜family portrait” 
NORFOLK, VA.  Norfolk Southern’s Heritage  locomotives will gather for a “ family portrait”  at the  North Carolina Transportation Museum (NCTM) in Spencer, N.C., during the  Fourth of July week. All 20 locomotives painted in the color schemes of  predecessor railroads will be on display  July 3 and 4.
 
“This is the first and probably only chance we’ll have to get all  these locomotives together in one place at one time, said Norfolk Southern CEO
Wick Moorman. We’re proud of the role railroads play in keeping the country’s economy strong, and July  4 is an opportune time to showcase that heritage of service  and safety.” “Having  these engines gathered together is a  phenomenon, not just an event,” said NCTM Executive Director Samuel Wegner.  “And the N.C. Transportation Museum’s Bob Julian Roundhouse  is obviously a great place to frame this ‘ family portrait.’ It’s a great  partnership with Norfolk Southern to host this historic  occasion.”

Tickets for the event are $25 for adults and $15 for children in advance, and $30 for adults and $20 for children the day of the event.  Children
under 3 are free. Tickets will go on sale beginning May 21 at the  NCTM’s web site or by calling 704-636-2889, ext. 237. Norfolk Southern  employees and retirees will be eligible for a $5 discount, with a limit of  four tickets per purchase.  Some restrictions may apply.  Retirees must purchase tickets by phone to get the discount.
 
The Fourth of July week was chosen because of the holiday and because demand for the locomotives in freight service temporarily will be  reduced due to the traditional coal miners’ holiday.
 
In  a related event, on Saturday, July 7, the Virginia Museum of Transportation in  Roanoke, Va., will unveil the refurbished Norfolk & Western 1776  locomotive, which was painted in a star-spangled color scheme to commemorate the nation’s bicentennial in 1976 and has just been restored to its original  luster.

[Bob Bufkin]

The New York Central unit is now out of the shop and ready to go.  Don't have any photos.

[flight2000]

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=398385&nseq=0

Here you go.  Nice, but not a big fan of the scheme.

Brian

[packers#1]

Yeah, that stripe just doesn't work with the uneven SD body; still a cool scheme though

[lock4244]

"I have waited six months to catch a heritage unit. She's a beauty, whoo-hoo, yeah".

I actually really like the NYC scheme on this unit... other shots doe her more justice:

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/398459

[davefoxx]

Not my favorite, but I think the NYC scheme is well executed.  By the way, who's the poor guy who had to mask all of those louvers?  I'll betcha he was cussing EMD.

DFF

[GaryHinshaw]

I think the rear zag should have been smaller, like these cowl units:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=386096&nseq=8
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=354218&nseq=38

Maybe it's supposed to mimic two cowls back to back?  Whatever the concept, it seems curiously static.  Also, why not two-tone grey?  That would have been natty.

[packers#1]

Gary, the stripe on those cowls looks larger too; I do think that woulda been better, but those boxes are still throwing me; otherwise it's another A+

[Iain]

Oh, baby

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=398644

[Bob Bufkin]

Now that is one I want a model of.  Beautiful. 

[packers#1]

now that was made for that locomotive 

[Bob Bufkin]

Got word that the Lackawanna unit is next in line.