CSX heritage locomotives

[Stew Winstandley]

This is from the Tuesdday 8/11 TRAINS News Wire.  I'll be waiting for MONON on a CSX cab.

CSX recognizes railroad heritage with predecessor emblems on locomotives
 
By Chase Gunnoe  | August 11, 2015 
 
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GE AC44CW No. 256 displays the Seaboard Coast Line logo ahead of the cab.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Transportation will recognize its rich history with commemorative predecessor logos applied to locomotives beginning this year. Last week, photos from the railroad’s Waycross, Ga., locomotive shops showed freshly painted GE AC44CW No. 256 displaying a Seaboard Coast Line emblem on the locomotives engineers side nose. The locomotive had just emerged from the railroad’s paint booth wearing CSX’s YN3b scheme.

 CSX spokesperson Kristin Seays tells Trains News Wire that CSX plans to feature at least 10 individual predecessor logos, but a final number has not yet been determined.

“Over the last 187 years, railroad mergers and acquisitions formed CSX’s present day 21,000 mile, 23 state rail network that connects every major metropolitan area in the eastern U.S. and links more than 240 short-line railroads and 70 ocean, river and lake ports. In honor of the predecessor railroads that built our company, CSX is displaying their logos on its locomotives,” she says. “The Seaboard Coast Line is one of the first predecessor logos CSX has displayed. It will be followed by others that have contributed to CSX’s heritage dating back to the country’s first common carrier, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, chartered in 1827.”

Each predecessor logo will be applied to one individual locomotive. The total number of railroads to be featured is to be determined and locomotives will be selected as they come in for scheduled repaint and repair.

[Tom Kepshire]

Well it is about time. CSX must have got tired of seeing NS get all the publicity.

[Stew Winstandley]

CSX could save money on a paint job by leaving one in gray primer, let it get dirty, and then put L&N on the cab.

[Stew Winstandley]

Here's the latest from the TRAINS News Wire:

CSX debuts second heritage emblem on an engine
 
By Chase Gunnoe  | September 2, 2015 
 

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Transportation has released its second predecessor railroad emblem during a recent repaint at its Waycross, Ga., locomotive shops. CSXT GE AC44CW No. 323 was seen on Wednesday displaying a rectangular Louisville & Nashville commemorative logo on the locomotive’s right side.

 CSXT No. 323 was photographed on a train near Augusta, Ga. on Wednesday morning. The locomotive left the Waycross facility last week.

 In early August, photos emerged of GE AC44CW No. 256 with a Seaboard Coast Line emblem. CSX spokesperson Kristin Seay tells Trains News Wire that the railroad intends to feature at least 10 individual predecessor logos. Each predecessor logo will be applied to one individual logo.