page_title: Norfolk Southern Railway
section_title: Heritage fleet
hierarchical_section_title: Norfolk Southern Railway / Locomotives and rolling stock / Heritage fleet
caption_attribution_description: The Southern heritage unit leads Q335 into Grand Rapids on it's journey from Toledo's Walbridge Yard. The Southern unit was taken off of Q512 in Toledo and put on Q335 for a rare trip on CSX rails in Michigan.
context_page_description: The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad in the United States, and is the current name of the former Southern Railway. With headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, the company operates 19,420 route miles in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia, and has rights in Canada over the Albany to Montréal route of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and previously on CN from Buffalo to St. Thomas. NS is responsible for maintaining 28,400 miles, with the remainder being operated under trackage rights from other parties responsible for maintenance. The most common commodity hauled on the railway is coal from mines in Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The railway also offers the largest intermodal network in eastern North America.
  NS is a major transporter of domestic and export coal. The railway's major sources of the mineral are located in: Pennsylvania's Cambria and Indiana counties, as well as the Monongahela Valley; West Virginia; and the Appalachia regions of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. In Pennsylvania, NS also receives coal through interchange with R.J.
context_section_description: In the first half of 2012, Norfolk Southern painted 10 EMD SD70ACes and 10 GE ES44ACs as special heritage units, each bearing the paint schemes and markings of the various predecessor railroads of Norfolk Southern and Conrail. On July 1–3, 2012, all 20 units gathered together at the North Carolina Transportation Museum at Spencer, North Carolina, as the highlight of NS's 30th-anniversary celebration. The locomotives have since traveled throughout the United States on various Class I railroads as run-through pool power, attracting much attention from railfans.
  The Heritage Units include:
  Central of Georgia (GE ES44AC) #8101
  Central Railroad of New Jersey (EMD SD70ACe) #1071
  Conrail ("Big Blue") (GE ES44AC) #8098
  Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western (EMD SD70ACe) #1074
  Erie (EMD SD70ACe) #1068
  Lehigh Valley Railroad (Red) (GE ES44AC) #8104
  Illinois Terminal Railroad (EMD SD70ACe) #1072
  Interstate Railroad (GE ES44AC) #8105
  Monongahela Railway (GE ES44AC) #8025
  New York Central Railroad (EMD SD70ACe) #1066
  Nickel Plate Road (GE ES44AC) #8100
  Norfolk & Western (Blue "Hamburger" Logo) (GE ES44AC) #8103
  Norfolk Southern (Original) (GE ES44AC) #8114
  Penn Central (EMD SD70ACe) #1073
  Pennsylvania Railroad (Tuscan Red) (GE ES44AC) #8102
  Reading Company (EMD SD70ACe) #1067
  Savannah & Atlanta (Tuxedo Black scheme) (EMD SD70ACe) #1065
  Southern (Crescent Green scheme) (GE ES44AC) #8099
  Virginian (EMD SD70ACe) #1069
  Wabash Railroad (EMD SD70ACe) #1070
  Erie Lackawanna (EMD SD45-2) #1700
caption: ES44AC 8099 in Southern Railway colors
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