CSX Heritage units


TRAINNUT

TRAINNUT

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Very recently CSX Announced the Clinchfield locomotive and I couldn't help but notice the yellow seemed off
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Now In the very beginning people were complaining about how they never looked right and I payed no mind to it, I thought that CSX would hear the complaining and try in fix it with the coming locomotives but it seems not and now here we are. What are your thoughts?
 
CambriaArea51 said:
Research into these older units are tough. Pictures are not accurate and if you had a unit to look at the colors would be sun faded. Unless there is a historical society with the proper info it's hard to have a perfect match. Paint today is different than paint decades ago.
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It's understandable about the older pictures, but the company itself has restored fallen flag locomotives
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This is straight from the CSX website https://www.csx.com/index.cfm/about...gacy-locomotives/c-o-8272/?mobileFormat=false
 
I'm not a big fan of those. What's the point of keeping the nose and front in CSX paint? This is what you see coming down the track when standing by the railroad. It looks off, way off. Proper way to do heritage schemes is to do it like the Norfolk Southern did, or Union Pacific:
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This is properly done Heritage paint scheme, pictures taken in July this year in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
 
KriegslokBR52 said:
I'm not a big fan of those. What's the point of keeping the nose and front in CSX paint? This is what you see coming down the track when standing by the railroad. It looks off, way off. Proper way to do heritage schemes is to do it like the Norfolk Southern did, or Union Pacific:View attachment 204508View attachment 204509View attachment 204510
This is properly done Heritage paint scheme, pictures taken in July this year in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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That's how it really should be, I didn't have a problem with the units because I thought the paint scheme would look better but it doesn't, almost nothing good came from those locomotives
 
KriegslokBR52 said:
I'm not a big fan of those. What's the point of keeping the nose and front in CSX paint? This is what you see coming down the track when standing by the railroad. It looks off, way off. Proper way to do heritage schemes is to do it like the Norfolk Southern did, or Union Pacific:View attachment 204508View attachment 204509View attachment 204510
This is properly done Heritage paint scheme, pictures taken in July this year in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this way. Not trying to be overly harsh, but to me, having the cab and nose in CSX colors while the long hood section is in a heritage scheme almost makes the engine look like a highly polished patch out or one that used a huge amount of salvaged parts. I agree, Norfolk Southern and the UP know how to do it right. I'm glad they're paying tribute to these roads, but I think the paint scheme could have been designed better.
 
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