U30B 1949 partial F4 and F5 schemes

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That's one really crazy scheme. No idea how such a bastardized paint
job could have ever been performed. The date of the picture was 1973.

Decatur was often in a world by itself and didn't march in step with the
N&W as a whole.  Decatur was the assigned maintenance location for N&W
GE's.  GE's on the N&W seemed to have more than their fair share of
maintenance and operational issues.  N&W motive power management from other
locations expressed that the single largest issue with GE's was Decatur.

Here's a 1975 picture of 1949 at Brewster in the black NW scheme.

Ed Painter - from Giles County, VA

On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <
nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> Ed Painter's comment :
>
> "Very strange to think a N&W unit could have been painted blue after
> 1974(or really after 1971 when black NW scheme became official) ?????  The
> date of this picture was 1981"
>
>
> made me think of this pic of U30B 1949, Decatur IL, 1973. What happened
> here ? Partial F5 'C&O merger/non-merger' lettering, over F4 Pevler Blue ?
>
>
> https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/original-slide-w-norfolk-western-ge-4902168776
>
> Does anyone have pics of 1949 around this era, to help nut out what
> happened ?
>
> Ben Scanlon
> Shanghai, China
>
>
>
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