So a few years back we got about half of the locos that make up Norfolk Sothern's line of heritage units. I believe they were the GEVOS? Well, so far that's all we've gotten. DTG never followed up with the SD70ACe units, nor have they given us the Conrail heritage unit. Is there a licensing issue stopping them? Because releasing a DLC pack with the other half seems like it would have been the next logical step (and I definitely would purchase it), and that's the only reason I can think of that they never released it.
And also the Erie-Lackawanna SD45-2 Heritage Unit and the Southern RR GP59 Heritage Unit. I agree that the Conrail ES44AC is needed too.
Are these NS heritage units? I'm assuming they are since Erie-Lackawanna and Southern trackage are part of NS now. On the subject of heritage units, I'm kind of disappointed in CSX. Keeping the CSX paint job at the front clashes with the old designs. Too bad BNSF never made heritage units, like legit heritage units. Taking a bunch of logos from fallen flags and slapping them on the side of a normal unit doesn't count as a heritage unit to me. That looks more like graffiti. I once saw an Instagram post with what was either concept art or an actual cancelled project showing proposed BNSF heritage units and it really made he hope they do it someday. An ES44AC in CBQ or Great Northern livery would be an absolute beauty.
Conrail cant show up due to DTG not having a license with the CSAO. And Skyhook seem to have no more interest in making the rest of NS heritage fleet. And dont go asking DTG to do it, as their UP ones were pretty terrible.
CenturionGreg: The EL SD45-2 is a real NS Heritage Unit. The GP59 was rebuilt and now wears the normal NS black. I agree that BNSF needs ES44ACs (or maybe ET44s or SD70ACes) in heritage liveries. I've seen some fantasy concepts from Lionel Trains on SD70ACe models that they made a while back. Here are a few of my ideas for possible BNSF Heritage Fleet liveries. 1.) ATSF: Warbonnet, obviously!; maybe Blue/Yellow Freightbonnet or Bookend (1960s-70s livery) 2.) CB&Q: Chinese Red and Gray would look amazing, as would the Black and Gray livery 3.) GN: Maybe the Hustle Muscle SD45-inspired livery? Also, either Big Sky Blue or Empire Builder liveries (maybe both?) 4.) SL-SF (Frisco): The obvious one: Texas Special! 5.) NP: either the North Coast Limited-inspired livery or the black and yellow freight livery 6.) SP&S: either their freight or passenger livery 7.) BN: SD70MAC Executive livery, maybe the same livery as the BN OCS Train locos; or maybe a white-face or tiger-stripe green/black livery 8.) Other special BNSF Heritage liveries: BNSF "Vomit Bonnet" SD70MAC livery and Bicentennial livery (for US 250th Anniversary)
CSAO is Conrail Shared Assets Operations. Conrail was split between NS and CSX in the late 1990s. The Santa Fe Blue/Yellow livery they had in the 1960s-70s was actually called the Pinstripe livery because of the yellow stripes on the sides of the locos. I'm pretty sure I've seen it called Bookend livery because of the front and rear yellow paint with dark blue on the sides.
Conrail Shared Assets Operations, they still exist as a paper railroad doing some movements in the north east using CSX or NS equipment, they still own the trademarks to Conrail, as seen on their website here: https://conrail.com/terms-of-use/
