Thursday, May 22, 2014

Prototype Pic of the Day #10

The entire NS heritage fleet | Image courtesy of Norfolk Southern Corp. via RailPictures.net
This is probably the best photo ever of a group of locomotives. Norfolk Southern really knew what they were doing with this fleet. All of the paint jobs look downright amazing. My favorites would have to be Conrail, Lehigh Valley, and Nickel Plate Road. I've only been lucky enough to see one of them in person so far (Lehigh Valley in the old Conrail Sterling yard just down the road from me), but I'm hoping to see more of them someday.

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  1. That is a great shot. They use these over the road, then?

    I spent 10 days overlooking an old Penn Central branch east of Pittsburgh in April … it grows tiresome watching NS trains, compared to the other biggies. Look, more black engines!

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    1. They do. Its definitely nicer than seeing nothing but the standard black and white scheme. There are a ton of pictures of them all over the place on RailPictures.net

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