F unit pics are being posted at http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?ids=181478,181479,181486,181483,181588,181578,181593 I like them except the I think the horsehead and NORFOLK SOUTHERN both on the lead units is a bit crowded, Your thoughts? Brad
They do look nice. But I see what you mean. The horse on unit nose seems rather lonely for me. Looks like something is missing. Boxcab E50
Hmm......change that black to green, put the SR logo on the front, and you may have something........ Otherwise, a pretty good salute to SOU's freight scheme. The horse needs to be a little bigger- from some of the shots, it looked like roadkill. Maybe a bigger horse with the letters NS below.......
Nice pictures!! I would love to be around when that train rolled through. Any chance of sharing it's scheduled route plan? As for the train, I agree that the front horse should be bigger. There's to much white space around it. Other than that, I think the train looks nice.
I have been "following" it online... it left Lynchburg, VA a little after midnight today (3/30). It was scheduled for a crew change in Linwood Yard at 6 AM and was pretty close to that. It passed through Charlotte around 7:45 AM and on to Columbia at lunch time. I am not sure of its return time schedule after the Masters.
I agree, I think the Horse should occupy at least 50% of the white area, otherwise it's a very nice scheme. I assume the -38's were along only as a safety net for their first mainline run. Hopefully the ABB consist will run alone from now on.
From what I understand, the F units were PULLING the high hoods..... and the high hoods had dynamic braking ON.... I guess NS didn't wanna spare any rolling stock, so they spared some motive power. Go figure.
That makes sense....dynamic braking can be controlled to provide different amounts of drag. But cars would just be dead weight, and excercising their brakes would wear shoes and wheels unecessarily.
Nice nod to the past, I'm with Bob on this, paint the black to green:teeth: . The scheme looks sharp, wish they carried over a version of this to their working fleet. Jim
The 4160? Hadn't seen it since last year when it was doing switching duty in Brosnan Yard in Macon. I'm hoping they keep it in the Southern livery for a while, wherever it is.
I am still waiting for a N&W heritage engine. Oh wait I think the NS has forgotten about that Railroad.
Nice units and nice train. The only problem with it has nothing to do with the paint. Trouble is (and it goes with the super-tricked OCS trains all the Class 1s own), they spent a zillion bucks on a champagne and caviar limo, then put on a price-no-object jaunt to a golf game for the VIPs but the rank and file can't very often get a garden variety set of power to make a complete round trip without failures. I guess when you're making millions every quarter, the pimped up ride is necessary to impress the competition, congressmen and Wall St. suits and probably makes a good tax write off besides. Having said that, sometimes it would be enlightening if the powers could leave the porters behind for a while and just go out and ride on the property when the heaters won't work, the overfull toilet reeks, the windshield wipers quit, the computer bugs out for the umpteenth time, the sanders are frozen and the 3rd unit drops off the line without a shiny pair of GPs tagging along for 'protection power'. I know...they wish the crybaby crews could see them sweating in boardrooms over the 'big picture' corporate strategy too but somehow the rewards seem a little skewed. In the grand scheme of things, the varnish is probably only a small drop in the profit bucket but even understanding it, it's hard to keep hearing how the guys in the field have to do 'everything and then some...or else' to keep costs down while the select few are living very large. Call it sour grapes but it sometimes ain't an easy thing to watch.
Ummm I have to agree fully Rule 281. Funny how we have to do certain things to save money on fuel and so on. But we can waste money on outdated engines to take high class people places. Sure does make me glad to see those units like it does you.
