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    Heritage unit

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    Short description: Locomotive painted in an honorary paint scheme
    UP 1995 is an EMD SD70ACe owned by the Union Pacific Railroad painted in the Chicago and North Western Railway scheme (one of the 6 railroads acquired by UP)
    Amtrak has sixteen heritage units, each painted in one of Amtrak's former paint schemes or a special veterans scheme, with one painted in a "Big Game" scheme. Six are celebratory 50th Anniversary units, and there are also an additional sixteen heritage units purely used on the Empire Service in New York. Seen here is GE P42DC locomotive #145, which is painted in Amtrak's Phase III scheme.
    Norfolk Southern has 20 heritage units, 20 mainline locomotives: 10 ES44AC & 10 SD70ACe painted in predecessor railroads' liveries. One of Norfolk Southern's units, ES44AC #8099, is painted in the Southern Railway livery.

    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

    1. ↑ 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.
    2. ↑ 161 has 50th Anniversary markings
    3. ↑ 156 is out of service as of August 2021
    4. ↑ 46 has 50th Anniversary markings
    5. ↑ 108 has 50th Anniversary markings
    6. ↑ 100 has 50th Anniversary markings
    7. ↑ 160 has 50th Anniversary markings
    8. ↑ Out of service as of June 2021
    9. ↑ 301 has 50th Anniversary markings
    10. ↑ Repainted between 2019 and 2022; all units no longer wear New Haven paint scheme.
    11. ↑ Currently out of service due to derailment (repaired now)[12]
    1. ↑ Our Heritage
    2. ↑ Norfolk Southern's Heritage Locomotives
    3. ↑ Adapting the Heritage Paint Schemes
    4. ↑ "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. 
    5. ↑ "Canadian National Puts New Heritage Units into Service". 17 November 2020. http://railfan.com/canadian-national-puts-new-heritage-units-into-service. 
    6. ↑ 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. 
    7. ↑ Repaint for record-breaker as EMR marks end of HSTs Rail issue 926 10 March 2021 page 30
    8. ↑ 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. 
    9. ↑ "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. 
    10. ↑ "Metra Makeover: Designing Locomotive 425" (Press release). Metra. January 12, 2018.
    11. ↑ 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. 
    12. ↑ "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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