Norfolk Southern announced the unveiling of its one-of-a-kind GoRail

Absolutely beautiful!

cool

That's a lot of man-hours for a fancy paint job.  I suppose it was difficult proving worth to some bean-counters but they must have done it. 

Cool, looks very nice.

Hopefully the NS Veterans unit and this GoRail unit are in the works by either Lionel or MTH.

Neal Jeter

With all the Norfolk Southern has been doing in recent years in terms of promotion of its activities, I suspect the bean counters may no longer have the final word on what gets done.  And that would be a very good thing!  All it takes is strong and determined leadership with a vision and direction...looks like NS found the right combination.

looks good, Its neat to watch how they actually painted the engine with their lift system and all the taping.. I think NS realizes all the good PR they get with embracing the custom engines. I would also think that they get royalties from everyone using their name and selling their Heritage engine colors. If not just the recognition of their railine..  

Obvoiusly, a man willing to pay more so NS could get a royalty payment.

Chessie System and UP tried collecting royalties from the model manufactures.  Didn't work.

Rusty

Good stuff !!conrail john

Really neat!

I smiled to see they use vinyl on the prototypes just like we did and 1/4 and 1/3 scale trains when I worked for a company that made them.

Really livens up the black & white paint scheme. I think it looks very nice. They should make more of these only using more than just the green as the accent color. I think many different colors would go really well as accents to the black & white scheme. Could really liven up the fleet, and would definitely get peoples attention. 

Because most locomotives today take fewer trips to the wash rack than Klingons do to the showers, black locomotives make sense!  It hides the dirt better!

That's a very attractive color scheme. Thanks for sharing that.

That doesn't sound logical. The only black automobile I ever owned, sure didn't "hide the dirt better"! The darned thing looked dirty again 2 hours after being washed.

I love this! It really shows the time that goes into some of these marketing paint jobs.

Gotta agree with the black cars, had one (and only one) myself, it showed every tiny, microscopic dust particle it came across. And it was a real dust magnet! I now drive only goldish-brown cars, close as I can get to actual dirt color!

Most NS locos are flat black.  Most cars re shiny black.  Now I can see that would make a difference.

But it seems RR's just don't wash locomotives anymore!

So what model loco was that? Is that a rebuilt sd50/sd60 with NS's own comfort cab?

Then you have never seen one come out of the paint shop!

My black Ford Escape always stayed clean..........for about a whole ten minutes after I put the chamois cloth away. Seems there is always something releasing pollen into the air here in Georgia and the first thing to get "pollinated" was my SUV.

It also had to be dried right after washing or it would show water spots.

I had mine in 1974, had totally forgotten about those dreaded spots. You are 'spot' on with that statement.  

They used Yellowish-Green for the front and the logo on the real is Bluish-Green.

I prefer the Bluish-Green.

Andrew

PRRHorseshoecurve:   The loco shows that it is an SD60E.

Very nice paint scheme.   Thanks for the video!

The NS GoRail SD60E on the move.