N&W Blue on new diesels

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Good catch…….I missed that one!  I went to my slide collection and have slides of all but 2 of these units in the 70’s and 80’s.  All were in black NW.  In that 1610-1624  were delivered in 1971 it makes sense they would have been have been NW black.  Thanks.

Ed Painter – Narrows, VA currently living in Russellville, AR

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Subject: RE: N&W Blue on new diesels

Minor correction - the second order of SD40s (starting with 1610 IIRC) was delivered in N&W "NW" black.

Mark Peele
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From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
Subject: RE: N&W Blue
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Date: Friday, March 18, 2011, 5:26 PM

Wabash Blue like N&W Blue can seem to vary with age, cleanliness, lighting, and such (from looking at pictures).  Overall, Wabash Blue appears to be a lighter shade than N&W Blue.  This appears especially to be the case in pictures of “new” U-25Bs and GP-35s.  As for N&W units delivered “new” in N&W Blue:



•         All 1300 series GP-40s were delivered in Blue (this would be all N&W GP-40s)

•         All 1500 and 1600 series SD-40s were delivered in Blue (this would be all N&W SD-40s)

•         All 1700 and 1800 series SD-45s were delivered in Blue (this would be all N&W SD-45s)

•         All 1900 series U-28Bs were delivered in Blue (this would be all N&W U-28Bs)

•         All 1900 series U-30Bs were delivered in Blue (8400-8514  were black with “half-moons” and 8515-8539 were black with NW)

•         C-628s - 1110-1129, the second order of C-628s, were delivered in Blue (the first order 1100-1109 were black with “half-moons”)

•         All 1100 series C-630s were delivered in Blue (this would be all N&W C-630s)



Ed Painter - Narrows, VA living in Russellville, AR


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