<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:24px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false">Ed Painter's comment :</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false">"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"</div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false">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 ? </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/original-slide-w-norfolk-western-ge-4902168776" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/original-slide-w-norfolk-western-ge-4902168776</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false">Does anyone have pics of 1949 around this era, to help nut out what happened ? </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false">Ben Scanlon</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false">Shanghai, China</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><br></div></div></body></html>