Heritage Unit Photos

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Larry, you nailed it!  That is exactly the way that engine should look.

Jerry Kay
Portsmouth, VA

On 4/25/12, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> Todd

>

>       First of all I what to say thanks NS and Wick Mormon for all there

> efforts. Great Job it makes no difference what

> color it is. It's not a N&W locomotive anyway.

>

>      I agree with Mark its fairly clear that it is not the same color any

> of us  remember and does not match the photographic record

> as he said. I have seen it in person and photos and does not look

> correct to me. And maybe everyone is wrong but it been talked

> about on just about ever list on the internet and no one ever said it was

> to dark.

>

> With all due respect the color info was provide from a sample from a member

> of this list as I understand it.  EMD

> may have provided some information but all the paint code info EMD has is

> no longer useable I have research it

> with great detail.  EMD, Duco, Deluxe, Harris codes can no longer be mix by

> the code info . That being said it can

> be matched exactly from a sample of the paint. And that is apparently were

> it went wrong or maybe NS relied on

> faulty info from  EMD. EMD would not have available any new paint codes for

> this paint because they have not

> used it since the 1960s.

>

> The Attached Photo is the way I remember it

>

> Larry Evans

> Kenova, WV

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