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UP 1995 is a SD70ACe owned by the Union Pacific Railroad painted in the Chicago Northwestern Railroad (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 (pictured) is painted in Amtrak's Phase III scheme.
Norfolk Southern has 20 heritage units, 10 ES44AC & 10 SD70ACe locomotives painted in predecessor railroads. One of Norfolk Southern's units, ES44AC #8099, is painted in Southern Railway livery

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 6 EMD SD70ACes in stylized paint schemes of 6 of its predecessors between 2005 and 2006[1]. The Norfolk Southern Railway did the same in 2012 with 20 of their locomotives[2]. 10 of them being EMD SD70ACes, while the others are being GE ES44AC units. For its 40th anniversary in 2011, Amtrak painted 4 GE P42DCs, a P40DC, and an EMD F40PH converted to a NPCU into its older paint schemes[3].

List of heritage units

Below are the list of the heritage units in active service by various railroads.

Railroad Road number Paint scheme Locomotive type
Amtrak 156 Phase I P42DC
130 66 Denver, & Rio Grande California Zephyr 8 Phase 2! Phase II P42DC
145 Phase III P42DC
184 Phase IV P42DC
822 Phase III P40DC
90406 Phase III NPCU (former F40PH)
Iowa Interstate Railroad 513 Rock Island ES44AC
Metra 100 RTA[4] F40PH
405 Milwaukee Road MP36PH-3C
425 Rock Island[5] MP36PH-3C
Norfolk Southern 1700 Erie Lackawanna SD45-2
8025 Monongahela ES44AC
8098 Conrail ES44AC
8099 Southern ES44AC
8100 Nickel Plate Road ES44AC
8101 Central of Georgia ES44AC
8102 Pennsylvania Railroad ES44AC
8103 Norfolk & Western ES44AC
8104 Lehigh Valley ES44AC
8105 Interstate Railroad ES44AC
8114 Norfolk Southern (original) ES44AC
1065 Savannah & Atlanta SD70ACe
1066 New York Central SD70ACe
1067 Reading SD70ACe
1068 Erie SD70ACe
1069 Virginian SD70ACe
1070 Wabash SD70ACe
1071 Central Railroad of New Jersey SD70ACe
1072 Illinois Terminal SD70ACe
1073 Penn Central SD70ACe
1074 Lackawanna SD70ACe
Union Pacific 1982 Missouri Pacific SD70ACe
1983 Western Pacific SD70ACe
1988 MKT SD70ACe
1989 Rio Grande SD70ACe
1995 Chicago & North Western SD70ACe
1996 Southern Pacific SD70ACe

References

  1. ^ Our Heritage
  2. ^ Norfolk Southern's Heritage Locomotives
  3. ^ Adapting the Heritage Paint Schemes
  4. ^ Sweeney, Steve (September 14, 2017). "Metra unveils F40PH heritage unit". Trains News Wire.
  5. ^ "Metra Makeover: Designing Locomotive 425" (Press release). Metra. January 12, 2018.
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