U30B 1949 partial F4 and F5 schemes

[NW Modeling List]

I totally agree proper cleaning and prep was basically non existent!  I
have many examples in my N&W collection of pealing paint on locomotives
showing prior schemes.

Ed Painter - Narrows, VA

On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> What Jimmy said is correct. Apparently many times in the repaint process,
> surface prep was non-existent, I’m told by those who were there, most
> repaints tended to be simply blow the dust off with an air hose, then
> paint, with no primer or other surface prep. It also depended on where the
> repaint was done.
>
> Ken Miller
>
> > On Oct 25, 2025, at 2:29 PM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > One thing you guys need to remember is that when an engine went in for a
> repaint, they weren't taking the same steps as one would when painting
> one's own custom car!
> >
> > Jimmy Lisle
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
> >
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> > Date: 10/25/25 2:11 PM (GMT-05:00)
> > To: NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> > Subject: Re: U30B 1949 partial F4 and F5 schemes
> >
> > 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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