Heritage unit
A heritage unit 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. The Union Pacific Railroad painted six EMD SD70ACes 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.[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,[a] and Kansas City Southern.[4][5]
List of heritage units[]
Below is a list of heritage units in active service by various railroads.
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- ^ 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
- ^ Units 125 and 128 lost their New Haven scheme after being rebuilt in 2019. 126 lost its New Haven scheme after being rebuilt in 2021. Remaining units will eventually be rebuilt and repainted.
- ^ Currently out of service due to derailment[11]
- ^ Our Heritage
- ^ Norfolk Southern's Heritage Locomotives
- ^ Adapting the Heritage Paint Schemes
- ^ "CN heritage locomotives sighted, but company won't comment". Trains. 13 October 2020.
- ^ "Canadian National Puts New Heritage Units into Service". Railfan & Railroad Magazine. 17 November 2020.
- ^ a b Franz, Justin (16 September 2019). "Canadian Pacific releases two SD70ACU heritage locomotives". Trains Magazine. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ Guss, Chris (August 18, 2020). "Metra unveils C&NW heritage locomotive". Trains Magazine. Retrieved August 19, 2020.
- ^ "Metra unveils Burlington-themed heritage unit". Trains News Wire. October 4, 2019.
- ^ "Metra Makeover: Designing Locomotive 425" (Press release). Metra. January 12, 2018.
- ^ a b c "NJ Transit reveals heritage locomotives". Trains News Wire. October 5, 2019.
- ^ "Train derails in Baldwin; East Carson, River Road closed as clean-up commences". 12 December 2021.
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