Engineering:Heritage unit
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A Heritage Unit or Commemorative Locomotive is a railroad locomotive painted in an honorary paint scheme; usually the paint scheme of a now-defunct railroad that merged with or was acquired by the locomotive's owner. Many of them are EMD SD70ACes from Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, and even Canadian Pacific. The Union Pacific Railroad painted six "EMD SD70ACe"s in stylized paint schemes of six of its predecessors between 2005 and 2006.[1] The Norfolk Southern Railway did the same in 2012 with 20 of its locomotives for its 30th Railroad Anniversary.[2] 10 of them being EMD SD70ACes, while the others being GE ES44AC units. For its 40th anniversary in 2011, Amtrak painted four GE P42DCs, a P40DC, and an EMD F40PH converted to an NPCU into its older paint schemes. Several more were painted for its 50th anniversary in 2021.[3] In 2019, the Canadian Pacific Railway painted nine EMD SD70ACU units in a maroon and gray paint scheme with a different font style. In late 2020, the Canadian National Railway revealed five new heritage units after they had been first spotted a month earlier. These included four GE ET44ACs and one EMD SD70M-2. They were painted in honour of the 25th anniversary of CN's initial public offering. As of 2021, all major railroads have official heritage units, except for BNSF Railway,[lower-alpha 1] and Kansas City Southern.[4][5]
List of heritage units
Below is a list of heritage units in active service by various railroads.
| Railroad | Road number | Paint scheme | Locomotive model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amtrak | 130 (formerly 66) | Phase II | GE P42DC |
| 145 | Phase III | ||
| 161[lower-alpha 2], 156[lower-alpha 3] | Phase I | ||
| 184 | Phase IV | ||
| 46[lower-alpha 4] | Phase V (Connecting America for 50 Years) | ||
| 108[lower-alpha 5] | Phase VI (Connecting America for 50 Years) | ||
| 100[lower-alpha 6] | 50th Anniversary - Midnight Blue (Connecting America for 50 Years) | ||
| 160[lower-alpha 7] | Dash 8 Phase III "Pepsi Can" | ||
| 406 | Phase III | EMD NPCU (former EMD F40PH) | |
| 822[lower-alpha 8] | GE P40DC | ||
| 662 | Siemens ACS-64 | ||
| 700-705, 707-717 | Phase III with Empire Service logos | GE P32AC-DM | |
| 301[lower-alpha 9] | "Day 1" livery | Siemens ALC-42 | |
| Canadian National | 600 | Classic CN Scheme | EMD GY430A (slug) |
| 601 | Illinois Central | ||
| 3008 | GE ET44AC | ||
| 3023 | Elgin, Joliet & Eastern | ||
| 3069 | Wisconsin Central | ||
| 3115 | BC Rail | ||
| 7600 | Classic CN Scheme | EMD GP40-3 | |
| 7601 | Illinois Central | ||
| 8952 | Grand Trunk Western | EMD SD70M-2 | |
| Canadian Pacific | 3084 | Classic CP Scheme | EMD GP38-2 |
| 7010–7014 | Tuscan red and grey (script writing)[6] | EMD SD70ACU | |
| 7015–7019 | Tuscan red and grey (block writing)[6] | ||
| Central Maine & Quebec Railway | 9017 | Bangor & Aroostook | GMD SD40-2F |
| CSX | 1-3 | Baltimore & Ohio | EMD F40PH |
| East Midlands Railway | 43102 | InterCity (British Rail)[7] | British Rail Class 43 |
| Iowa Interstate Railroad | 513 | Rock Island | GE ES44AC |
| Locomotive Services Limited | 43046 | Midland Pullman | British Rail Class 43 |
| 43055 | |||
| Metra | 90 | Chicago & North Western[8] | EMD F59PHI |
| 211 | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy[9] | EMD F40PHM-2 | |
| 405 | Milwaukee Road | MPI MP36PH-3C | |
| 425 | Rock Island[10] | ||
| NJ Transit | 4109 | Central Railroad of New Jersey[11] | EMD GP40PH-2 |
| 4519 | Erie Lackawanna[11] | Bombardier ALP-45DP | |
| 4636 | Pennsylvania[11] | Bombardier ALP-46A | |
| Metro-North/CDOT | 228-231 | New Haven | GE P32AC-DM |
| 125-130[lower-alpha 10] | Brookville BL20GH | ||
| Norfolk Southern | |||
| 1065 | Savannah & Atlanta | EMD SD70ACe | |
| 1066 | New York Central | ||
| 1067 | Reading | ||
| 1068 | Erie | ||
| 1069 | Virginian | ||
| 1070 | Wabash | ||
| 1071 | Central Railroad of New Jersey | ||
| 1072 | Illinois Terminal | ||
| 1073 | Penn Central | ||
| 1074 | Lackawanna | ||
| 1700 | Erie Lackawanna | EMD SD45-2 | |
| 8025 | Monongahela | GE ES44AC | |
| 8098 | Conrail | ||
| 8099[lower-alpha 11] | Southern | ||
| 8100 | Nickel Plate Road | ||
| 8101 | Central of Georgia | ||
| 8102 | Pennsylvania | ||
| 8103 | Norfolk & Western | ||
| 8104 | Lehigh Valley | ||
| 8105 | Interstate | ||
| 8114 | Norfolk Southern (1942–1982) | ||
| Ontario Northland | 1730 | Classic ON Scheme | EMD SD40-2 |
| Union Pacific | 1982 | Missouri Pacific | EMD SD70ACe |
| 1983 | Western Pacific | ||
| 1988 | Katy | ||
| 1989 | Rio Grande | ||
| 1995 | Chicago & North Western | ||
| 1996 | Southern Pacific |
See also
References
- ↑ Although BNSF released several commemorative celebrating their 25th Anniversary, which featured logos of predecessor railroads, these are not considered as heritage units. BNSF also has several units in older “Warbonnet", “Bluebonnet”, "Cascade Green", and "Grinstein" paint schemes, but these are generally also not considered heritage units.
- ↑ 161 has 50th Anniversary markings
- ↑ 156 is out of service as of August 2021
- ↑ 46 has 50th Anniversary markings
- ↑ 108 has 50th Anniversary markings
- ↑ 100 has 50th Anniversary markings
- ↑ 160 has 50th Anniversary markings
- ↑ Out of service as of June 2021
- ↑ 301 has 50th Anniversary markings
- ↑ Repainted between 2019 and 2022; all units no longer wear New Haven paint scheme.
- ↑ Currently out of service due to derailment (repaired now)[12]
- ↑ Our Heritage
- ↑ Norfolk Southern's Heritage Locomotives
- ↑ Adapting the Heritage Paint Schemes
- ↑ "CN heritage locomotives sighted, but company won't comment". 13 October 2020. https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2020/10/13-cn-heritage-locomotives-sighted-but-company-wont-comment.
- ↑ "Canadian National Puts New Heritage Units into Service". 17 November 2020. http://railfan.com/canadian-national-puts-new-heritage-units-into-service.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Franz, Justin (16 September 2019). "Canadian Pacific releases two SD70ACU heritage locomotives". https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/09/16-canadian-pacific-releases-two-sd70acu-heritage-units.
- ↑ Repaint for record-breaker as EMR marks end of HSTs Rail issue 926 10 March 2021 page 30
- ↑ Guss, Chris (August 18, 2020). "Metra unveils C&NW heritage locomotive". https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2020/08/18-metra-unveils-cnw-heritage-locomotive.
- ↑ "Metra unveils Burlington-themed heritage unit". Trains News Wire. October 4, 2019. https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/10/04-metra-unveils-burlington-themed-heritage-unit.
- ↑ "Metra Makeover: Designing Locomotive 425" (Press release). Metra. January 12, 2018.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "NJ Transit reveals heritage locomotives". Trains News Wire. October 5, 2019. http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/10/05-nj-transit-reveals-heritage-locomotives.
- ↑ "Train derails in Baldwin; East Carson, River Road closed as clean-up commences". 12 December 2021. https://triblive.com/local/south-hills/train-derails-in-baldwin-east-carson-river-road-closed-as-clean-up-commences/.
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