In General
Patriotic
Canadian National
Indiana Harbor Belt
Kansas City Southern
Norfolk Southern
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Special
EMD Demonstrators
General Electric Demonstrators
Maersk/ATSF
Union Pacific
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The Scoop:
There are a lot of really nice looking engines out there. My Bicentennial page covered the ones we saw in the 1976+ timeframe.
One thing lead to another, and someone suggested that I add the special paint schemes the railroads have done over the years to celebrate veterans, active military, first responders, presidents, etc. This led me to say, what the heck, let's add special paint jobs for miscellaneous reasons, like the Maersk repaint below....
This page will highlight whatever I can find on these Patriotic Locomotives. If you do a search for any of these locomotives, you will find many, many more pictures than I have shown here.
A round of applause goes to all of these photographers for being in the right place at the right time!!!
Acknowledgements:
Sam Beck
Joseph Bishop
Joe Blackwell
Adam Burns
Joseph Cermak
R. Craig
Matthew Griffin
Thomas J. Heher
C.W. Lahickey
Marc Lingenfelter
Terry Lovell
Kevin Morgan
L.R. Myers
Frank Orona
Mike Ray
Colin Ritchie
K Sies
Mark Vogel
Craig Walker
Ken Ziegenbein
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Websites and other additional information sources of interest for the area:
https://www.facebook.com/BicentennialTrains/
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/bicent7.html
https://trpmagazine.com/bicentennial-units/
http://www.athearn.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=ATHG65204 About NS #6920
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_4141
https://www.up.com/heritage/fleet/commemorative/ghw-bush-4141/photos/index.htm
https://www.up.com/aboutup/special_trains/commemorative/index.htm
https://www.progressrail.com/en/Segments/RollingStock/Locomotives/FreightLocomotives/SD70ACe.html
https://www.thedieselshop.us/ProgressDemo.HTML
https://www.up.com/aboutup/community/inside_track/we-are-one-1979-210527.htm
Patriotic
Canadian National
photo:
Joseph Bishop
photo: Terry Lovell
photo: Colin RitchieIndiana Harbor Belt
picture: Marc LingenfelterKansas City Southern
Kansas City Southern officials unveiled a locomotive with a patriotic paint scheme on 11/12/2018. The scheme demonstrates the company's pride in past and present U.S. military activity duty and veteran employees.
Norfolk Southern
Southern Pacific
photo: Craig Walker
Union Pacific
Union Pacific #3593 - Desert Victory
photo: Ken ZiegenbeinOriginally UP #8084. Here's a February 27, 1991 photo of Union Pacific 3593, the Desert Storm locomotive (actually named Desert Victory), that UP painted in honor of Operation Desert Storm in Iraq. This was the dedication of the locomotive in front of UP's Jenks Shops in North Little Rock AR. According to UtahRails.net, (http://utahrails.net/up/up- diesel-paint.php), on February 27, 1991, UP SD40-2 3593 was released from Jenks shops painted with a U.S. Army inspired camouflage paint scheme to commemorate the 66 UP employees who participated in Operation Desert Storm. It was was repainted in UP yellow on October 11, 1991 since it was harder to see due to the camouflage paint scheme.
Union Pacific #4141 - George Bush 41
Union Pacific #1943 - The Spirit
photo:
L. R. Myers/2018/Horseshoe Curve 
Nucor Steel / Whitesville IN
photo: Mark VogelA new paint job, with the photo being taken in 2008.
Special Paint Jobs
Canadian Pacific
photo:
Railway AgeMeanwhile, "up" in Canada, Canadian Pacific’s line-haul HFC locomotive, equipped with Ballard Power Systems technology, began operational testing in January 2022. CP’s locomotive is the HSOEL, which stands for Hydrogen Zero Emissions Locomotive.
GM Electro-Motive Division Demonstrators
--- GM6C
photo: R. Craig / 1989
photo: C.W. Lahickey / 1980--- GP20
photo: Adam Burns / 1960--- GP38-2
photo: R. Craig / 1989--- SD45X
photo: R. Craig/ 1989
--- GP60
photo: R. Craig / 1989--- SD70ACe
photo: EMD/Progress Rail
photo: K Sies
--- SD70ACe-P4
photo: Thomas J. Heher--- SD80MAC
photo: Ft Smith Trolley Museum / 1995General Electric Demonstrators
--- C40-8
photo: Joseph Cermak/ 2016Maersk / ATSF
photo: Joe Blackwell
photo: Sam Beck / 1990
Norfolk Southern
Back in 2012, over the Independence Day weekend, Norfolk Southern unveiled it's collection of heritage locomotives at the North Carolina Museum of Transportation in Spencer NC. NS had to quickly take two leftover Conrail geeps into the paint shop so they could legitimately say this was the only Conrail engine on the system :-)
Union Pacific Special Editions
--- Powered By Our People
photo: Mike Ray / 2022--- We Are One
photo: Kevin Morgan / 2021
--- Salt Lake City Olympics
photo: Matthew Griffin / 2022???
Disclaimers:
I love trains, and I love signals. I am not an expert. My webpages reflect what I find on the topic of the page. This is something I have fun with while trying to help others.
Please Note: Since the main focus of my two websites is railroad signals, the railfan guides are oriented towards the signal fan being able to locate them. For those of you into the modeling aspect of our hobby, my indexa page has a list of almost everything railroad oriented I can think of to provide you with at least a few pictures to help you detail your pike.
If this is a railfan page, every effort has been made to make sure that the information contained on this map and in this railfan guide is correct. Once in a while, an error may creep in :-)
My philosophy: Pictures and maps are worth a thousand words, especially for railfanning. Text descriptions only get you so far, especially if you get lost or disoriented. Take along good maps.... a GPS is OK to get somewhere, but maps are still better if you get lost! I belong to AAA, which allows you to get local maps for free when you visit the local branches. ADC puts out a nice series of county maps for the Washington DC area, but their state maps do not have the railroads on them. If you can find em, I like the National Geographic map book of the U.S..... good, clear, and concise graphics, and they do a really good job of showing you where tourist type attractions are, although they too lack the railroads. Other notes about specific areas will show up on that page if known.
Aerial shots were taken from either Google or Bing Maps as noted. Screen captures are made with Snagit, a Techsmith product... a great tool if you have never used it!
By the way, floobydust is a term I picked up 30-40 years ago from a National Semiconductor data book, and means miscellaneous and/or other stuff.
Pictures and additional information is always needed if anyone feels inclined to take 'em, send 'em, and share 'em, or if you have something to add or correct.... credit is always given! Please be NICE!!! Contact info is here
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