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What exactly is the YN2 - YN3 that is referred to re: new CSX paint jobs? And the colors look strangely like the TRAINORDERS.COM header on this page...................

anvilhead wrote:
>
> What exactly is the YN2 - YN3 that is referred to re: new CSX
> paint jobs? And the colors look strangely like the
> TRAINORDERS.COM header on this page...................

YN2 is a moniker that the guy who publishes The Bull Sheet came up
with (or at least published, maybe one of the contributers came up
with it). He published a paint scheme roster of all CSX engines every
6 months, and YN2 was the "bright future" scheme. YN1 was the
original blue and gray scheme with a yellow nose/rear and frame
stripe added. Now that they came up with the new solid blue with
gold nose/rear/frame stripe, he dubbed it YN3.

YN(Yellow Nose)

A mystery quickly solved.
Thank you for the help.

The site "CSX Photo Archives" goes into pretty good detail about these terms, with photos. I'd post the link but I'm not sure if that would be proper web etiqute without asking them. A search engine will probably get you there.

mbob

I think the new scheme should be called GN1: for Gold nose.
That's my two cents.

Here is the link to the CSX Photo archives:
http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/


Brent
Shortlines of Southern Indiana
http://www.trainweb.org/indianashortlines/