Norfolk Southern demand?

I personally like it for the reason I pass a NS train everyday to and from work.  I dont know about anybody else.  I recently bought a RTR NS set and will probably be buying other NS engines or dummies in the future.

Mike

My twice-yearly train trips (Atlanta and Pittsburgh from NYC) take place mostly on NS lines. I seemed to have grown something of an affinity for their units:

It probably doesn't hurt that my trips ended on or ahead of schedule in no small part thanks to their dispatching too

---PCJ

I hear them blowing for the RT 29 crossing about a mile away many times a day, so I have many of their engines. Not into rolling stock though with the NS logo as what I see is double stacks, and TOFC's, and hoppers in Southern, and every other road name.

Joe, That is one of the RR's that are seen in real life now.  Even with Pennsy and B&O and other long out of service roads still popular with modellers the NS is real.  People still pass them when driving,  have to wait for them at crossings,  hear about them on the news and tv commercials and such.

I feel your pain.  I used to work for NS as conductor hauling coal from Shire Oaks yard to Altoona.  I'm trying to build a coal drag with 100 ton hoppers in G scale.   They are very hard to come by.  Even on the Bay they just aren't there.  I just bought one about a month ago but the one before that I think was in the summer or early fall and the bid was ridiculous.

Keep trying.  Rick

Many in the hobby--perhaps most--tend to favor roads they are familiar with or that they remember.  That's a great way to keep those attachments and/or memories alive.

I guess I'm kind of the exception in that regard since the roads I model are the Alaska RR, which I have never seen in "real life" but hope to see one day, and U.S. Army Transportation Corps, with which I had only a somewhat passing acquaintance in my distant past.

But I pretty much gobble-up anything made in those two road names and tend to hold onto them.  I suppose others who have favorite roads do pretty much the same thing.

It's really where you look and what your looking for.

Since I model the NS I'm always looking for some motive power to add to my roster.

But the Models I look for would be Dash 9's or 8, SD60's and 70/70ace.

I'm still looking to add alot of former Southern units like Highhood SD40 and SD40-2 Which have not made by all the O scale manufactures. Only Atlas O made a highhood SD40 but it was a NW model not a Southern unit. You just have the hunt and be ready to pay a premium price.

I love NS engines, and I have the non-powered sd70m.  But I won't buy any others with NS because I am trying to stick to BNSF and late atsf.  

I think they are really cool so I understand why other people like them. (I love the horsie logo!!)

just about any of the large rr's are popular-its what you see day-to-day. here in the east ,N.S. gets more attention now with the 20 her. units running system wide.seems like BNSF is pretty hot too. i once had a guy from kalmbach pub. at york said they run a cover shot of the newer pumpkin color w/ sweesh logo when ever they can on TRAINS mag and special issues whenever they can and it increases sales-jim

Or a SD-45 Hammer Head!!! Not the SRR or NS fan Sean is....but I do love the Tuxedo paint of the SRR and I have a WBB NS SD-90. And I see WBB is doing some NS Heritage units.

I did just buy a WBB SRR 72' SL passenger 6 car set for a project Sean will like for sure!

Saw a pair of NS GP's pulling stack cars adjacent to the NJ Turnpike near Ikea this morning on my way to Jersey City .. simple yet beautiful ..how could ya not like them ...