On Saturday January 13, 2024 Norfolk Southern Heritage Locomotive 1069 visited Shenandoah.
This Heritage unit was sitting on the tracks between the Shenandoah Welcome Center & Museum and Norfolk Southern Shenandoah Yard office.
The Shenandoah Welcome Center and Museum is located at 507 First Street, Shenandoah, VA, and houses an extensive collection of items showcasing the N&W railroad, town history, and the USS Shenandoah. In addition to its Train, Military and History rooms, it has a total of three observation rooms where visitors can come and view the trains. The largest room is the History room. Large windows on the west side of the building with an excellent view of the railroad tracks and Norfolk Southern Shenandoah Yard office. This railyard is the only working railyard between Hagerstown, MD and Roanoke, Virginia. Train enthusiasts visit the museum to experience firsthand the sights and sounds of trains running along the tracks beside the museum.
Please visit the link below to see a video and learn more about the museum.
https://www.townofshenandoah.com/community/page/town-museumwelcome-center
About Heritage Locomotives
As part of its 30th anniversary celebration in 2012, NS painted 20 new locomotives in the color schemes of predecessor railroads. The commemorative units quickly became known as NS' Heritage Locomotives.
Since the 1820s, hundreds of railroad companies were built, merged, reorganized, and consolidated into what eventually became Norfolk Southern, itself created from the consolidation of Southern Railway and Norfolk and Western Railway in 1982. In 1999, Norfolk Southern acquired a portion of Conrail. The Heritage Locomotives represent railroads that played significant roles in Norfolk Southern’s history. The first unit, Conrail 8098, rolled out of Altoona, Pa., March 15, and the final one, Lackawanna 1074, rolled out of Muncie, Ind., on June 27.
Each paint scheme was modified to fit contemporary locomotives while staying as true as possible to the original designs. Norfolk Southern employees in Altoona and Chattanooga, Tenn., painted GE ES44AC locomotives, while the EMD SD70ACe units were painted at Progress Rail Services’ facility in Muncie, Ind. The Heritage Locomotives are used in freight service across Norfolk Southern’s 19,500-mile, 22-state network. This information was obtained from Norfolk Southern website. https://www.norfolksouthern.com/en/commitments/in-your-community/rail-fans/heritage-locomotives
EMD SD70ACe
#1065 Savannah and Atlanta #1070 Wabash
#1066 New York Central #1071 Jersey Central Lines
#1067 Reading #1072 Illinois Terminal
#1068 Erie #1073 Penn Central
#1069 Virginian #1074 Lackawanna
GE ES44AC
#8025 Monongahela #8102 Pennsylvania
#8098 Conrail #8103 Norfolk and Western
#8099 Southern #8104 Lehigh Valley
#8100 Nickel Plate Road #8105 Interstate
#8101 Central of Georgia #8114 Norfolk Southern (original)
This list of Heritage Locomotives was obtained from WVNC Rails website:
