HERITAGE UNITS, PT1

Like the Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, the AP&W also has a fleet of Heritage units...

One such unit is 1990, the Delaware and Hudson unit. She is numbered for the year that the AP&W took over the D&H, and was re-painted into this scheme in 2010; twenty years after the merger.

Here she is pulling a long train of reefers through town. The unit is from the same 2006 order of GE ES44AC's as the America units; she was formerly 9690.

Also from the same order of ES44AC's, is Erie Lackawanna- painted 1960, the former 9618, seen here pulling into Hillsdale Yard for a crew change.

Damaged in a wreck, 9618 was repaired, repainted and renumbered into this scheme in late 2010, in honor of the 50th anniversary of Erie Lackawanna's formation. While the railroad itself went to Conrail upon its start-up, much of the E-L's western trackage went to AP&W predecessor APRR, along with much of its equipment, due to the AP's attempt to acquire the E-L beforehand. It is interesting to note that had this unit been numbered for the year much of the E-L was acquired -1976- it would have had to be re-numbered again a year later to free up the number for the America unit!

Sitting in the yard, 1990 shows off her paint job. This was the most popular of the Delaware and Hudson's paint schemes, and it looks good on a modern GE unit! Like the Erie Lackawanna unit, a small AP&W logo occupies a small spot on the lower nose of the unit to signify the real owner.