The rest of you probably knew about this announcement years ago, but I just got the skinny;
YUP, Norfolk and Western GP9s, phase 2, in steam era paint. Too bad there will be only a
limited number of cab #s available. Anyway, sign me up for two. One can only hope that
the usually careful Atlas crew will put the circular herald plates the ends of the hoods,
as was correct for this time period. I'm sooo jazzed on this one that I'll have to get one
in two rail as well ! Actually, there are some really neat roadnames out on this run.
Maybe someday, Atlas will pony up for a phase 3 GEEP, and then do some N&W red birds for
the Powhatan Arrow. Things are lookin' good!

Forgive the possibly stupid question, but by steam-era paint do you mean diesels with a big maroon/gold bordered stripe across the side?

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One can only hope that
the usually careful Atlas crew will put the circular herald plates the ends of the hoods,
as was correct for this time period.

I asked this question on the Atlas forum last night and Jim Weaver replied this morning and said they would

Enjoy

Frank

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Forgive the possibly stupid question, but by steam-era paint do you mean diesels with a big maroon/gold bordered stripe across the side?

steam era paint=black with gold lettering. N & W did NOT have any diesels with "maroon/gold across the side" until late 70's and early 80's with gold NW(ach!) on the sides. The rr called the color Tuscan Red.

Technically these won't be the first steam era paint, as that scheme used the true steam
style font with somewhat larger lettering. However, this incarnation would certainly be
correct for use with your Y6b and A during the last years. Glad to hear that Atlas will
be doing the heralds correctly. I'm guessing that this will be a big seller in spite of
being a rather un-flashy paint scheme. When I'm able to get the two rail version, it will
become a prime candidate for a weathering job to pop out the detail on this awesome model.
It will also allow me to install the tool box on the frame just above the fuel tank, as
this is another of those unique N&W features. Many thanks, Atlas.....been awhile since
I've had something like this to look forward to.