CSX CEO Joe Hinrichs today released the first photos of the railroad’s Western Maryland heritage locomotive.
The unit, No. 1852 in honor of the Western Maryland’s founding year, was rolled out of the paint shop in Waycross, Ga., and into the sun. It includes the railroad’s fireball logo.
“Here is the latest Heritage Locomotive from our talented ONE CSX team in Waycross, Ga.,” Hinrichs wrote on LinkedIn. “The Western Maryland Railroad was started in 1852 in Baltimore, Maryland, and eventually became part of the Chessie System which then became CSX. Great history of coal and freight service in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Enjoy.”
The CSX heritage fleet has now grown to a dozen units representing predecessor lines. Among them: Family Lines; Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac; Baltimore & Ohio; Chessie System; Seaboard System; Conrail; Chesapeake & Ohio; Louisville & Nashville; Atlantic Coast Line; New York Central; and Monon.
Maybe it’s the lighting … this one seems insipid.
Opinion is divided. I’m totally in CSX’s corner, to have the CSX livery at the cab, the heritage livery along the hood. After all, these are working CSX units. Not every railroad needs to do it the same way.
Very nice!
Fireball’s darn near invisible. Whole unit should have been in black, gold striping and a large fireball.
Twelve ugly locomotives. There’s only one way to do a heritage locomotive, and CSX ain’t it.
Thanks for that useless comment. CSX has their way for doing them. Deal with it. If you want that perfect heritage unit, then how about you draw it yourself or maybe buy some model trains and paint them yourself.
At least they get the actual colors right, unlike NS’s Conrail unit that isn’t the Conrail Blue.
CSX DOESN’T have to do these heritage locomotives, but they chose to do them. They have their method, so at least respect it.
Makes me think of the Texas flag minus the star.
A few others are picking up on the Texas flag as well. It would be fun to send it as run through power to the Lone Star State…
In all honesty, I feel that the “Western Maryland” words should have been made larger which would of course make the whole locomotive stand out more.
Or from Baltimore north through Owings Mills, Resiterstown, Glyndon and Emory Grove and other points north in the old coal running days
Hopefully it can take a trip up to Mt. Storm or Mettiki Mine of the old Thomas Sub soon…