| This is the lettering on NS 5182 and if you look real good you can see old lettering showing through the newer NS paint. This makes me think that Southern used stickers for their lettering and when Southern Merged into Norfolk Southern they painted over stickers. The picture on the left shows the numbers but notice that there's a bit of gold numbering showing above the NS numbering. Also notice that threre's a "F" beside it. This means this unit was 5182F back in its SOU days. Now the right side picture shows a few sou lettering stickers bearing on the long hood of 5182. You can see the letters "H, E, R, N" bearing through the NS paint. I looked at the back of the engine and I saw what looked like the old SOU logo showing through the NS horse but didn't have any time to get a shot of that part. So from now on whenever you encounter some old SOU power if you can try and get a closer look because you might find stuff like this because I have a feeling many old SOU units are bearing lettering. |