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There were still Chessie painted locomotives on CSX's roster in the early '90s.
You are correct in removing the C&O reporting marks, or B&O and WM for that matter, and replacing them with CSXT. You would also have to renumber the engines per CSX's model designations.
There were dozens of Chessie-painted units on CSX in 1992. Most were of EMD manufacture (9 different models), but just a handful of GE engines (1 U23B, a few B-30-7s). Not all of these had their reporting marks changed yet, as my photos at Brunswick,MD. show a few units unchanged thru the mid-1990s.
By the end of 1998, only 28 Chessie units remained (GP38, GP40)
In 2002, only 4 GP40s remained in the Chessie colors.
Ditto what others have told you. I went to work at CSX in 1991 and not only did we have lots of Chessie painted equipment we still had units in their Pre-Chessie paint - B&O/C&O "blue dip", WM Red-white-black, grey Seaboard, SCL and on and on. The creation of CSX swelled the ranks and it takes a long time to get around to repainting every unit. Yes, reporting marks all changed to "CSXT" usually with a simple stencil.
yes, it would be accurate, and you do not have to reletter (unless you want to)
Here are 2 photos of Chessie engines retaining their reporting marks well into CSX.
Photo 1 is a GP-40-2 leading the daily Hanover,PA.-Hagerstown,MD. turn into Hagerstown in March,1998.
Photo 2 is a wb Chessie empty coal train rolling through Bailey's Wye in Baltimore,MD; NOTE Orioles Park at Camden Yards in left background, and concrete abutment of just removed road overpass behind engines. 1993 photo.