ALTOONA, Pa. — Norfolk Southern’s Lackawanna heritage locomotive, SD70ACe No. 1074, has emerged from the Juniata Locomotive Shop with a fresh coat of paint.
NS, which showed off the locomotive on social media yesterday, says it took 10 carmen 750 hours to blast, prep, and paint the unit. More than 105 gallons of primer, color coat, and clear coat were applied to the 1074.
The Lackawanna locomotive joins the Virginian unit as refreshed heritage units. NS plans to touch up or fully repaint the rest of its heritage fleet.
Next up: The Pennsylvania unit, ES44AC No. 8102, which is undergoing work now.
The 20-unit NS heritage fleet dates to the company’s 30th anniversary in 2012.
Love the heritage unit redos. The Lackawanna color scheme is no doubt one of the nicest to ever hit the high iron rails. Why wasn’t the Lackawanna name placed on the long sides of the unit (as they were on the originals?). That would have put the finishing touch on the locomotive. Nice job otherwise!
Really like it, sharp looking unit.
I sure wish that CSX would paint their entire heritage units in the predecessor scheme.
Once the Ancora gang takes over you can kiss such frivolous expenditures goodbye.
Great to see NS keeping their heritage units repainted and on the rails.
Meh… Needs an NS painted cab and nose to really “pop” .
Actually this is the fourth NS heritage repaint following the RDG, SOU, and VGN units.