Pardon me for asking as I'm sure this has been asked before; but I've spend a hour on the web searching to no avail. My question is when did the various N&W Diesel Paint schemes start and disappear? Mainly the Pelvar Blue scheme, the hamburger herald era, and the start of the Helvetica Herald? Thanks for any info or URL you can supply. I attempting to model GP-40 #1383 roughly around 1977, any ideas what color this old girl was wearing then? Bob
I have a N&W diesel book at home which has that info, I'll check tonight & see if I can help further.
Okay, here's the info, taken from "Norfolk & western Second Generation Diesels" by Withers publishing, which I would really reccomend if you are doing many more N&W loco's in the era you are talking about. Loads of pics & info there. Hope this helps 1955-1958 Black, Gold Lettering "Norfolk And Western" spelt out 1958-1963 Black, dulux gold (yellow) lettering spelt out and medallion 1963-1966 Black, as above, but half-moon (hamburger) medallion 1966-1970 Blue, hamburger medallion, spelt out lettering 1970 U30B's 8465-8515 delivered in black with hamburger (same as 63-66 scheme) 1970-71 Black, Dulux Gold N&W serif initials & Hamburger logo, lots of variations 1971-1981 Black, Block "NW" scheme. 1981 "Skunk" scheme on 3x GP38AC, white horizontal stripe with Norfolk And Western in black. 1981-82 Final scheme, black with Norfolk and Western in white spelt out Passenger loco's ended up in tuscan & gold lettering, including an SD40-2 and C30-7's for business train use in the late 70's! Cool! I'm guessing your loco would have been wearing the black with white NW initials by '77, but it was built in blue and there is an outside chance it could still have been wearing it's factory blue paint. My money would be on black NW though.
