WAYCROSS, Ga. — CSX has released its latest heritage diesel, this time honoring predecessor Louisville & Nashville.
The ES44AH locomotive will wear number 1850, which the railroad explains signifies the year the L&N was chartered by the state of Kentucky. The railroad later became part of the Seaboard Coast Line, then part of Chessie System and CSX.
It becomes the sixth locomotive in the CSX heritage series, which feature the current CSX paint scheme on the nose and the predecessor’s scheme on the rear two-thirds. It joins units honoring Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Seaboard System, Chessie System, and Conrail. Like the others, it was painted at the CSX shops in Waycross, Ga.
I think CSX should make the Western Maryland heritage unit!
BNSF should make their own heritage units too!
Can you imagine this, the NS and CSX New York Central Heritage units together on the head end of a freight, in say, Erie PA. All you would need is a jade green caboose to finish it off.
Dear national cabooses of North America! They are gone but they are not forgotten!
Dr. Güntürk Üstün
They can’t seem to fix the blue overspray issue cab they?
Come to think how about an A,B & A/ A,B & C !
Norfolk Southern Heritage units still put CSX’s to shame.
And the Monon, RF&P, Clinchfield, and many more.
Hopefully CSX will gather them all together when they are finished at a museum (or two, one north and one south) so they can all be admired and photographed together.
I know it’s not on-line… but how about Spencer?
(Woud love to see a Piedmont & Northern heritage unit!)
Finally and it looks great!!
They would look better if they painted the whole unit in heritage colors.
Amen!
In that case, Staten Island Railway, B&OCT, Gainesville Midland and Piedmont & Northern.
SIRT, which colors, drab green or dark blue. I lived on Staten Island and rode the train to St. George often. Loved the rattan covered seats and traction motor whine before the subway cars arrived.
Don’t forget Boston & Maine, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Airline and Pere Marquette, among others depending on how many railroad generations they want to go back.
The CSX ES44AH looks really gorgeous in its new suit.
Dr. Güntürk Üstün
Now how will the Georgia/A&WP/W of A unit look like? Also shout out for a C&WC unit!
New York Central????
I like these Heritage Units coming form CSX. I agree Carl BNSF only major railroad with no Heritage units.
They still have blue bonnets, pink bonnets and Cascade green on the road…leftover from a merger that happened BEFORE the ConRail split.
A little late to the Honoring Heritage party, but better late than never. How about you BNSF?
I agree. Now it’s BNSF’s turn!
Dr. Güntürk Üstün