Brian Schmidt said:Word from people in the know is that it is a fire rebuild and got a quick coat of gray paint to cover the fire damage and be put back on the road in short order. It is a one-of-a-kind unit so that shoot's down the theory of it being a gray dip job from the factory.
Yellow? Shouldn't that be "snotty nose?" sign1That Fmr SP bloody nose repainted with a yellow "bloody nose"
I know that holds true for the NS.Don't know about any other railroad.Russ Bellinis said:I don't remember if it was GE or EMD, but one of the locomotive manufacturers was not able to build locomotives as fast as the railroads needed them. They were able to speed up production by supplying the units in a "dip job" grey color to get them out with a commitment to repaint the units into the correct railroad colors at a future date when the equipment would be made available to them.