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 4 GE P42DCs, a P40DC, and an EMD F40PH converted to an NPCU into its older paint schemes.[3] 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.[4][5]

UP 1995 is an EMD SD70ACe owned by the Union Pacific Railroad painted in the Chicago and North Western Railway scheme (one of the many railroads acquired by UP)
Amtrak has six heritage units, each painted in one of Amtrak's former paint schemes. GE P42DC locomotive #145 is painted in Amtrak's Phase III scheme.
Norfolk Southern has 20 heritage units: 10 ES44AC and 10 SD70ACe locomotives painted in predecessor railroads. One of Norfolk Southern's units, ES44AC #8099, is painted in the Southern Railway livery.

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
156 Phase I
184 Phase IV
406 Phase III EMD NPCU (former EMD F40PH)
822 GE P40DC
Canadian National Railway 600 Classic CN Scheme EMD GY430A (slug)
601 Illinois Central
3008 GE ET44AC
3023 Elgin, Joliet and 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 Railway 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 and Quebec Railway 9017 Bangor and Aroostook GMD SD40-2F
Iowa Interstate Railroad 513 Rock Island GE ES44AC
Locomotive Services Limited 43046 Midland Pullman British Rail Class 43
43055
Metra 90 Chicago and North Western[7] EMD F59PHI
100 RTA[8] EMD F40PH
211 CB&Q[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
Norfolk Southern Railway 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 Southern
8100 Nickel Plate
8101 Central of Georgia
8102 Pennsylvania
8103 Norfolk & Western
8104 Lehigh Valley
8105 Interstate
8114 Norfolk Southern (1942–1982)
Union Pacific Railroad 1982 Missouri Pacific EMD SD70ACe
1983 Western Pacific
1988 Katy
1989 Rio Grande
1995 Chicago and North Western
1996 Southern Pacific

See also

References
  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". Trains. 13 October 2020.
  5. "Canadian National Puts New Heritage Units into Service". Railfan & Railroad Magazine. 17 November 2020.
  6. Franz, Justin (16 September 2019). "Canadian Pacific releases two SD70ACU heritage locomotives". Trains Magazine. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  7. Guss, Chris (August 18, 2020). "Metra unveils C&NW heritage locomotive". Trains Magazine. Retrieved August 19, 2020.
  8. Sweeney, Steve (September 14, 2017). "Metra unveils F40PH heritage unit". Trains News Wire.
  9. "Metra unveils Burlington-themed heritage unit". Trains News Wire. October 4, 2019.
  10. "Metra Makeover: Designing Locomotive 425" (Press release). Metra. January 12, 2018.
  11. "NJ Transit reveals heritage locomotives". Trains News Wire. October 5, 2019.
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