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Im wanting to build a coal train.  I have a couple of CSX mth premier coalveyors to start with. And I would like to continue building a CSX unit. The build date on the cars are 1992. So my question is, would it be accurate to have chessie system painted locos powering a CSX unit coal train in 1992? I plan on removing the C and O and reletter it with CSXT.
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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.

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.

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  • 006: photo by D. French, WW Jenkins collection
  • 007: photo by J.D. Floyd, WW Jenkins collection

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