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Discussion of the operations of CSX Transportation, from 1980 to the present. Official site can be found here: CSXT.COM.

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 #989386  by AMK0123
 
Was surfing the web and saw images of CSX's new GE ES44AC's numbered 950-953. New engines have a new YN3 paint scheme with CSX's boxcar scheme. Was wondering from anyone in the know, is this going to be the new paint scheme on all new engines, or is CSX going to be repainting it's fleet into this new design.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 152&nseq=0
 #989571  by waldwickrailfan
 
AMK0123 wrote:Was surfing the web and saw images of CSX's new GE ES44AC's numbered 950-953. New engines have a new YN3 paint scheme with CSX's boxcar scheme. Was wondering from anyone in the know, is this going to be the new paint scheme on all new engines, or is CSX going to be repainting it's fleet into this new design.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 152&nseq=0
maybe YN4 paint?
 #991432  by roadster
 
I understand what YN3 is. What is this YN4?
 #991877  by roadster
 
The paint is the same, just a different logo. I wouldn't consider that a new sceme. Just YN3 with a different logo applied. A new sceme would include a change of paint and application style.
 #992621  by Tadman
 
I love the boxcar logo when not used on a locomotive. As opposed to "C&O Railroad", it's harder to tell what "CSX" does. But when it's pasted on the side of a train, it's pretty clear that CSX is a railroad.
 #993269  by MEC407
 
Agreed. I could see using this logo on trailers, shipping containers, letterhead, business cards, signs, etc., but it looks weird on a locomotive. (I feel similarly about RJ Corman, whose locomotives have what appears to be a pair of F-units about to crash into each other at a diamond. Locomotives on a locomotive... it just looks tacky.)
 #1085400  by Espee9180
 
Looks like this is CSX's new image. And not reserved for the new order of the GEVO's. SD70MAC #4719 has come out of the Huntington, WV paint shop wearing the new "Boxcar" Logo (YN4, YN3B, whatever you want to call it).

From rrpicturearchives.net photographer Brian Gessel.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=3211872
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=3211873