Today was my lucky day! I caught some of the oldest units on NS (SD9M's) and the newest (SD70M-2's)! In fact, one train had some of both units on it! Pictures soon,,,, harold
Sort of... it is the new "unibrow" / Horsehead scheme.... Most of the new units and repaints have the white "brow" containing the number boards... see the last batch of SD70M's for reference... Harold
dang, that numberboard/headlight arrangement will be a pain to model, and will be a detail just waiting to get picked off by fat finger Ed. maybe I need to go back and model more sd40-2's. the new kato mid-production units look nice, but I'm sure they will need modification to NS specs.
I agree with the assessment of the numberboards... if modeled, they would be vulnerable. I have not seen the new SD40-2's by Kato to see how they'd compare to NS units, but I'm sure someone else has. Harold