HERE IS THE LAST HERITAGE UNIT: LACKAWANNA ...........................ROGERW.
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Fantastic!And they used the passenger striping instead of the freight stripes! I have photos of the Syracuse-based Lackawanna E8's but they are all slides. Not yet digitized. This will be a nice compliment to the Lackawanna F3s, seen here in late May in Scranton.
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Looks an awful lot like Algoma Central!
Rusty
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That's a beauty and quite a bit different from the sketches that marked the debut of this heritage series.
Was this scheme last used on the SD-45s? I think this is one of the better heritage schemes used in this series, and should be very popular in model sales.
Actually, the Algoma Central scheme is modeled after the Lackawanna passenger scheme. The last units to wear this scheme were FMs, F3s and E8s. The Erie Lackawanna based their passenger scheme on this one as well. For the freight hood units, E-L eventually adopted this scheme in place of the black with yellow. They dropped the curves on the nose, resulting in an all yellow nose, front and back. GPs, SDs by EMD, Alcos, and GEs all received this treatment. One early variation was to put the Erie-Lackawanna in maroon above the maroon and yellow stripes. This eventually gave way to the yellow block lettered Erie-Lackawanna inside the maroon stripe. The Lackawanna itself rostered no SD units.
Having said all that, I think this is a very nice rendition! Kudos to NS for a great effort an remarkable program to celebrate their heritage.
Chris
LVHR
PS But I still want to see an E-L unit!
there are tears in my eyes......
Roger...thanks for the post
Tim....where did those F units come from? Where are they now? I have a brother in Scranton.....one niece graduated from "The U".....another from Scranton Prep..One of the best English teachers I ever hired was a Scrantonian....Irish, too...big surprise! Penn State will be led by another Scranton native at quarterback this fall, too. Anyway....my brother was supposed to tell me of items like this set of Fs so I could see 'em!
DL&W Pete....I can see your tears from here.....that is a beautiful locomotive! Maybe at the end of her career she'll be moved to Steam Town?!
What do you do for an encore??? Maybe have Altoona rebuild a slug into a
functional FM Train Master ! Golly, does that chooch look awesome!
Oooooh, does that look good
That is a smart looking engine, Ben needs that one in 10 different road numbers.
Oh, that is so great! Thanks for posting it.
Sorry if this was already mentioned in one of the many NS Heritage threads, but I understand Trains Magazine is putting out a special collector's issue on the Heritage trains. Due out in August.
My God... Ben hasn't posted in this thread yet. Hope he's okay. Perhaps he's having heart palpitations from viewing the NS Lackawanna unit???
OR...
Has a hot place in the center of the earth frozen over???
Amazing.
Andre
i have seen the F units several times they sometimes run to our station, Tobyhanna, on excursion trains from Steamtown. Al
Growing up in a town on the Lackawanna, remembering when my Father would take me to the station when I was a kid when the Phobe Snow was scheudled to go through and focusing my layout on the Lackawanna, it definitiely gives my heart palpitations.
In response to Tom Shirey, the F3s are former Bangor & Aroostook units, and are the only operational F3s left, if I understand it correctly. The Anthracite Railroads Historical Society owns one and the Tri-State Chapter, NRHS owns the other. They keep them as a matched set along with a former Boston & Maine F7B unit. From 1985 until 2010, they were painted tangerine and blue in Central of New Jersey markings. For the NRHS convention in Scranton (2010) they were painted into Lackawanna markings.
Wednesday is train club day Been working on the railroad only to come home and see the best heritage diesel to date. Already told Sean to order as many numbers of this baby as they will be making. Its going to look good with my EL ES44 and SD-90's. THEY DEFINITELY SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ben's next post will be......
LACK O MONEY.....
Yet another outstanding job by the folks at NS! They have done themselves proud!
Originally Posted by Tim O'Malley:
In response to Tom Shirey, the F3s are former Bangor & Aroostook units, and are the only operational F3s left, if I understand it correctly. The Anthracite Railroads Historical Society owns one and the Tri-State Chapter, NRHS owns the other. They keep them as a matched set along with a former Boston & Maine F7B unit. From 1985 until 2010, they were painted tangerine and blue in Central of New Jersey markings. For the NRHS convention in Scranton (2010) they were painted into Lackawanna markings.
Thanks Tim! Tom
