CSX yellow nose units - Trains Magazine

I believe the yellow noses were applied to those units in 1991, right before Chessie power started to die out. Other additions to these units were:

Yellow Nose
Yellow Rear
Yellow Side Sill

And of course, this scheme is known as the "modified" scheme or the "edited" scheme.

March 26, 1990 was when the New Image scheme or widely known as the Bright Future. The initials for this scheme are YN2. YN1 was the modified/edited scheme.

By the way, the yellow nose wasn't applied to every loco. Take a look at CSX 2779 (I believe), CSX 9120, 9121 and 9122. No yellow nose.

The YN3 or Dark Future scheme was announced on Febuary 9, 2002. Mostly at first this was applied to the GE Wide Cabs. AC4400CWs to be specific.....

Of course there are other variations to the YN1 and YN2. YN1 has added dark blue border on the side sills on most CSX GP15-1s still in that scheme.

YN2 has yellow "Hockey Stick" lettering on their CSX AC6000CWs. 633, 666 and 667 I believe, are the only three AC6000CWs still in regular "blue lettered" paint though.

Anyways, back on topic...I'm not sure of the exact date, but I believe it was 1991. Anybody, please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks

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