NS PRR heritage unit came out today

Haha oops I posted about the same thing on the 3-rail page. 

I think it looks fantastic! They definitely got the color right along with the pin stripping. Only complaint is I wish the darn handrail wasn't blocking the word "Pennsylvania". 

Even though I am trying to focus on Western railroads, I am thinking I may  put this on the short list

Now that's pretty!

I do have one little nit to pick, though, I don't like the circles around the Keystones,

and wondered if they are authentic.

But should a person nitpick? When did we think we ever get to see such a program as

NS has done with it's heritage locomotives.

I wonder if NS has a plan to picture them all together when the painting is complete..what a shot that would be!

Ed Mullan

OK, the question is just begging to be asked...

Would it look better in Dark Locomotive Green Enamel?

I think it would, but that's just me...

Rusty

The only nitpick as an armchair critic falls into line with Ed's with the PRR insignia, and I think it should have been more prominent, but thats just parsing. A group portrait would be fantastic, beyond my expectations. Still waiting for the IT and hope they had the silver trucks. They did a great job and I am grateful they did justice to a predecessor.

The PRR applied circled keystone 5 stripe schemes to the flanks of a number of Baldwin diesels.  To my knowledge circled keystones were not carried on the nose of any PRR power.  The freight sharks (3 classes) were delivered in Dark Green Locomotive Enamel (DGLE) with 5 buff stripes.  In the mid 1950’s they were repainted in the “standard” freight scheme carried by EMD, Alco, FM first generation diesel featuring a single narrow stripe.

The PRR’s BP20 passenger sharks featured a circle keystone 5 gold stripe DGLE scheme until repainted in a 5 buff stripe Tuscan red scheme beginning in mid 1952.  Still later (around 1956) the railroad began to repaint the BP20’s in its new wide single stripe Tuscan Red passenger scheme.  

The NS PRR Heritage scheme appears to be most strongly influenced by the Tuscan red passenger shark scheme.   Differences between the Tuscan BP20 scheme in addition to the nose keystone circles include more closely spaced letters in P E N N S Y L V A N I A, and that the 5 stripes do not extend to the perimeter of the circle around the keystone. 

 I applaud the NS for going the Heritage paint scheme route - they all look great to me!  Perhaps the railroad's intellectual property lawyers may have encouraged management to keep the road names alive.

Ed Rappe

Rusty, I'm with you. I was disappointed the PRR unit was not announced or done in Brunswick, to me a far classier color than Tuscan.

Very nicely done....I am definetly giving NS credit on this.

That is the prototype paint scheme for the GE's. I say well done NS and much more respectful to the fallen flag railroads.

Greg

Wow!

NS sure did a great job with the Pennsy unit!

Jim

That will work, thank you NS form all of us train lovers, if you so feel inclined and have an extra unpainted SD70 around some of us PRR guys would not mind one bit if you did one up in Brunswick green.

Again thank you much for all of those fallen flag road names that will ride the rails once more.

John P

Yeah, DGLE woulda looked better to me too, but I really enjoy the Tuscan!

I found this video and Altoona area paper article on the engine.

http://www.altoonamirror.com/p...irthday.html?nav=742

Good looking engine.  I do wish they put the engine number slightly under the side stripes near both the front and rear instead of the prototype's upper center side position.

Thanks for posting video Keystone. Somehow, it looks more grandiose in moving pictures. It must be seeing it tower  above from the ground level perspective. I love it!

Pity that the NS doesn't go northward through the north Chicago burbs. Little chance of seeing her in person.

There was a keystone on the nose, at first with the road number, then just PRR.

I wish the road number was under the cab window.  PRR also had the same at the rear.