<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">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!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jimmy Lisle</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:14px;color:#909090" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org> </div><div>Date: 10/25/25 2:11 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: U30B 1949 partial F4 and F5 schemes </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>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.<div><br></div><div>Here's a 1975 picture of 1949 at Brewster in the black NW scheme.</div><div><br></div><div>Ed Painter - from Giles County, VA</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <<a href="mailto:nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org">nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:garamond,"new york",times,serif;font-size:24px"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr">Ed Painter's comment :</div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr">"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 style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr"> </div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr">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 style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/original-slide-w-norfolk-western-ge-4902168776">https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/original-slide-w-norfolk-western-ge-4902168776</a></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr">Does anyone have pics of 1949 around this era, to help nut out what happened ? </div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr">Ben Scanlon</div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr">Shanghai, China</div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><br></div><br></div></div></div>________________________________________<br>
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