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<div>I’ve seen plenty of N&W locos with paint failures. Do you think the unit was painted blue and then painted over in the black N&W scheme without adequate prep and then weather and caustic cleaners stripped the black and left the Scotchlight decals?</div>
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<div>Greg Davis</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Oct 25, 2025, at 7:02 PM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org> wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<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.
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<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.
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<div>Here's a 1975 picture of 1949 at Brewster in the black NW scheme.</div>
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<div>Ed Painter - from Giles County, VA</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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" originalsrc="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>
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<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>
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