| Posted by Dana M. on September 19, 2014 | |
BRING BACK THE "KITTY"! Chessie needs to adorn the noses of the Chessie Seaboard X-emplified Transportation (CSXT) locomotives once again! Put the Chessie "C" on those locomotives today please!
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The B&O, America's first RR begun in 1827 and at the core of CSX today, also deserves a fitting recognition in the company's livery. A nice way to do this would be to paint the CSX office car special in B&O's Royal Saxony Blue + gray, with gold piping -- the handsomest passenger train livery ever seen in our country.
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| Posted by FSWood on September 19, 2014 | |
I'm also partial to Chessie: true, there is some sentimental animal lover in the mix of reasoning; but, Chessie was/is one of the most successful marketing and public relation campaigns of the 20th century.
Way back in early 1970s I asked a Tyco Chessie System train set for Christmas; its locomotive was a high nose ALCO C636, not a Chessie loco, but, hey, it had the right paint - since the parental staff was not exactly enamored of cats, I said nothing about the C&O's favorite feline. Even store staff had no idea why the C looked that way and eventually figured that although at first guess it might have been intended to be the Chesapeake Bay, it wasn't the right shape. Even with that, yes, the train set did show up on Christmas and was used for many years. About three decades later I explained the Chessie logo.
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