Heritage Unit Photos

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Thu Apr 26 10:49:39 EDT 2012


I disagree. Again, I have thousands of N&W 35mm slides that I shot personally during the era that blue units operated within. I saw blue N&W locomotives live and in person over many years. There is no absolutely correct N&W Blue, like with N&W Red, there is a range of colors that were produced over its time of use. There are many variables that affect how a paint will look following application. Whether it's air brushing HO models or spray painting large pieces of construction equipment (as a did at times as a part of my summer job with Babcock and Wilcox during college). Primer, no primer....the color of the primer - light or heavy application - thinning and so on? One thing we need to also note is the absolute cleanliness and glossy finish on the N&W Heritage unit. Of my thousands of roster shots few if any N&W locomotives were ever clean (unless coming directly from the paint shop) and none I saw ever received the attention to final surface condition that this ES44AC has seen in its mirror like finish.

I too would have preferred black but the blue looks great. (I could assume too that someone wouldn't be happy with the shade of black used?) That would make for a really good debate too!#^%$

Thank you Wick and NS for honoring the memory of the Norfolk and Western Railway. Your efforts are appreciated!

Ed Painter, Narrows, VA living in Russellville, AR

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Todd

First of all I what to say thanks NS and Wick Mormon for all there efforts. Great Job it makes no difference what
color it is. It's not a N&W locomotive anyway.

I agree with Mark its fairly clear that it is not the same color any of us remember and does not match the photographic record
as he said. I have seen it in person and photos and does not look correct to me. And maybe everyone is wrong but it been talked
about on just about ever list on the internet and no one ever said it was to dark.

With all due respect the color info was provide from a sample from a member of this list as I understand it. EMD
may have provided some information but all the paint code info EMD has is no longer useable I have research it
with great detail. EMD, Duco, Deluxe, Harris codes can no longer be mix by the code info . That being said it can
be matched exactly from a sample of the paint. And that is apparently were it went wrong or maybe NS relied on
faulty info from EMD. EMD would not have available any new paint codes for this paint because they have not
used it since the 1960s.

The Attached Photo is the way I remember it

Larry Evans
Kenova, WV

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