CN’s effort is welcome too, but it was much more haphazard. Rumour there is they asked certain shops who were doing work for CN already (overhauls, paint, etc) to “paint one in this scheme” with no drawings. Some did more accurate jobs than others, but at least it’s a full paint job and they turned out good for the most part. I hope more are to come.

UP was the first with their schemes – highly modified around 2005

NS upped the game with their insane program and continued to add to it. The gold standard – 2012 – 2014.

Curious are there examples of “heritage” units in the past prior to these examples outside of museums and outside of ‘old’ locomotives? The way I see it a railway that brought back a scheme for ‘heritage’ WITHOUT donating it to a museum immediately