Conrail was always my favorite. The blue was so iconic.

I have had the pleasure of operating the Southern locomotive ( my Favorite), the Pennsylvania, and the Conrail locomotives on the CNO & TP from Chattanooga to Burnside KY. I have had my hands on the controls of the GE Southern locomotive more than any of the others. Unfortunately the last few times I saw SOU 8099 she was looking rode hard and put up wet. That's the real RR, it about running the crap out of stuff and making profits. It's fun to catch one of the Heritage units head out on the consist. Typically there are an abundance of railfan's along the route to greet you with camera's, smiles, waves and the pumping fist to blow the horn. It always gives me pleasure to oblige.

Gotta love heritage units, a glimpse into an alternative universe without leaving our own.

Awesome video! Thanks for helping me learn more about the NS Heritage Units. They are all beautiful-looking locomotives!

Thank you for this detailed history of the heritage locomotives.

I’ve never seen a heritage locomotive before, but I have seen a penn central coal car which was pretty cool

The Southern will always be my favorite as my Dad's career was with Southern... retiring from Norfolk Southern in 1987. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SERVES THE SOUTH LOOK AHEAD LOOK SOUTH

An outstanding railroad video. Interesting and informative, much time, effort and attention to detail went into the production of this masterpiece. Thank you for posting your hard work for all to see. And many thanks to Norfolk Southern for their legacy presentations of fallen flag railroads.

This is a GREAT video! It oughta be seen by every railfan and model railroader. Incredible amount of work done, and it's appreciated! Thank you.

Great video and an excellent summary of history of these railroads. Well done AC.

AC, that was very good work. I really enjoyed that video, a lot of good information.

Thank you for a very well done history of NS's heritage units. Keep up the great job!

Your lessons on the history of the northeastern railroads are really delightful. Bring back the days of the good-old train! America needs to get back into training.

Great work as always, love these videos

An excellently prepared and presented, and informative video! Thank you!

As a model railroader I follow the Union Pacific with its Heritage Units and big steam engines and I have collected many of their locomotives, rolling stock and passenger cars. You introduced me to a new can of worms to open for collecting. Oh No! Great video with lots of history!

Really enjoyed this video. Good info, much of which I didn't know before. Thanks for sharing it. I'm a fan of the NS Heritage units.

I really enjoyed this. Love how NS went the extra mile with heritage units. I really love how you save the best for last and it’s my personal favorite RR.

This is the Best video I have seen in this Day, excelent historic content and of course a good job and effort to bring us all vídeos and pics of every heritages. This great channel deserve to hit the subscribe button.

Great job AC! That is large collection of railroad history as well as videos. It sure took a lot of railfanning to get all those shots. We ALL thank you! Cheers Dan. PS, I think the Wabash was my favorite.

An Awesome Video covering Rail Road history. Never realized how "intertwined" these many railroads are, much like NS & CSX are today. Very educational and obviously a result of lots of hard work and research over a period of time. Might take a few views to soak in ALL the history here. Thank you for building this video.. :)

Thank you for posting this. At least you did get the #8101 in action and I thank you for that. First, a really great video. You have some very nice HD video and stills. I wasted 30 minutes looking at a previous video (not by you) on the Heritage engines at Spencer, NC. They didn't even put the 8101 on the turntable, but I saw it sitting on the track. Secondly, thank you for your service. I served in the USMC from 1969 to 1973 and made Sgt. when I went to Vietnam in 1971. Well, by far the engine #8101, the Central of Georgia, is my favorite engine. Central of Georgia is one of the first railroads in the history of big roads. Central of Georgia acquired the Atlanta and Savannah which then was subsequently acquired by the Southern Railways which was then acquired by Norfolk Southern. So Norfolk Southern goes all the way back to Georgia! I would love to see a consist of Norfolk Southern followed by Southern, Central of Georgia and Atlanta and Savannah. I used to live in Georgia and have known quite a few former employees of the Central of Georgia. I guess that's why my model railroad is based on the Central of Georgia. Although I model the Central of Georgia, I permit Southern, Atlanta and Savannah, Louisville and Nashville, Tennessee Central and Norfolk and Southern to run on my layout. (P.S.- Just subscribed to your channel) W Rusty Lane in eastern Tennessee (Witherington Place Railroad)

Great job putting this video together!

Outstanding video AC, very nice work. Also nice job getting all 20 units! Enjoyed the video very much.

just found your site..Awesome Information along with your great videos...Thank you for sharing...new sub..

Very well done AC. I totally enjoyed watching. Excellent video.

another 5 star presentation... great history on all these locomotive... thanks for sharing.. vinny

Man, you did it again. Outstanding. I work around 70+ hours a week And dont have the time to do something like that out here with BNSF. With the harbor and all the container traffic plus all the other freight moving through here I’m sure there is a great story there. You must do a huge amount of research. So well done and very entertaining. Again, Bravo!!!

Love the channel and your narration. I just subscribed!

Great narration and editing AC!

If Norfolk Southern REALLY wanted to go over the top,they should arrange for each Heritage Unit to work the areas where those road names came from. Would be nice to see the old Pennsylvania,Reading,Lehigh Valley,Erie,New York Central locomotives on a regular basis.

Great video! I don't know how I missed it until now.

AC, you've become a railroad system historian in your own right. You've completed such a wonderful presentation covering these heritage unit locomotives. You briefly touched on the systems that merged or sold, that was the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. It has been a while that I can recall, but I believe they were still in business through the 1960s. They had an East and Western corridor freight and passenger service into Indiana. This would be through communities of Decatur, Ossian, alongside the U.S. Federal Highway route 224, and further West. Most of the rural areas between the Rail Right-Of-Way and the Federal highway were growing fields full of Sugar Beets through the 1930s and 1940s. Now, there is only an empty right-of-way, similar to a property easement, and void of any rails. Then you mentioned the Penn-Central, and how they suffered until they had become a part of Conrail. Actually, the Penn-Central Merger was a business plan going awry. Whose responsible? Why the venerable CEO, who attempted, after his demise from the railroad, to take down Navistar Corporation. His Name was Archie McCardell. Yes, this guy! LINK: www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwia8KnE_7rbAhXumq0KHbsQC7oQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqconline.com%2Fbusiness%2Fmccardell-s-reign-as-ih-boss-wasn-t-dull%2Farticle_bd99422b-f2fd-5d4c-9405-10baeffbc6b5.html&psig=AOvVaw1btuXDJR3L88sSVqiMna4w&ust=1528235636864810

Awesome video AC, Very well put together. Glad ya finally got your 1065! Now i just gotta finish off the 5 i need and get some redo’s. Congrats!

I am a subscriber now so ill be watching you as always

thanks again for another great video, learned much thank you.

Nicely done and well organized. I enjoyed it all.

Love your videos Keep up the good work

Awesome, thanks for posting.

Love love love love this video. Your narration is superb and absolute stupendous. Hi Logan here been a subscriber of your channel for over a year. I’ve seen the NS SD60e Heritage unit #6920 honoring our veterans. The only one I’ve ever seen. Your history of all of NS’s predecessors are really neat. You mentioned my state of Ohio again

My Favorite has to be the Pennsylvania Rail Road (PRR) one I think it's the coolest :) Good video!

Always nice to learn history about old railroads

Thanks for the history lesson!

33:14 Congratulations on a job well done!! Thanks for giving America the greatest show on rails!

loved it - thanks !!!

Excellent work. As a kid in the 50's, I recall seeing the rolling stock of America's railroads passing through my small town, which had the SP and MoP. As a brakeman for the SP out of Houston in the late 60's, I saw L&N and Southern engines at the 'round house' on Hardy Street. Coming and going on the H&TC [Houston & Texas Central - SP]. we would go through interlock systems in Houston with the MKT [Katy], in Navasota with the Santa Fe, and the MoP used SP tracks from Bryan, Tx to Navasota, Tx. I even had occasion to see a Rock Island freight on our line because of a derailment Now I live by the BNSF tracks, which passes by the farm, and I see engines from surviving railroads, such as NS, etc. Even saw a Southern Pacific engine a few years back.

Great job on this! I love those Nickel Plate and Wabash units. CSX should have taken a clue. I miss those kitty cats.

Fantastic Job AC I Love It

I hve learned an awful lot of history watching your videos, awesome my compliments sir

Excellent. Great lesson in railroad history.

Great stuff. It's nice to see a sense of history in the railroad industry like that of the old B&O.

Excellent video.

Great video and history

my two favorites have to be 1069 and 8098, not sure why but i really just love em

22:05 Pan Am Railways #3402 is an EMD SD38.

Great video A.C.

Awsome Video, great narration! I have 1071 in HO Scale, love that engine. I subscribed by the way

A very cool video. Great history on each unit. My favorite is the Wabash, although Ms. Connie is very pretty also! Thanks for sharing, Bro!

Awesome thanks for the history

Boom!.... Perfect! Norfolk Southern should include it on their website 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Bravo AC. Bravo

Outstanding video.

Fanatic work guys u so rock

NS 8100 is hands down my favorite NS heritage unit

Nice catches of the heritage units!

awesome video and catches.

In my Town (Manhattan, IL) a lady who got a N&W Caboose on display in downtown, her father was a station foreman for the Wabash, i cant remember what station it was. Wabash took over the railroad that went through my town so NS does have a small local that comes in usually around winter and never sees operation through my town after. my town is the last stop on Metra's Southwest Service commuter line.

Thanks 4 everything

20 Heritage units, that is cool, but what is sad is that there is ONLY ONE OF EACH!!!

Thank you!!!

Oh YES! So great to see this! I was getting worried.

On the other heritage unit, I did remember a GEVO for Kansas City Southern de Mexico. Nice! :D

SUPER!!! Much Love ♥♥♥ Ivana

I just saw the Wabash unit not long ago just outside Buffalo ,NY. Looks great in person.

Great stuff A.C.

You make good videos

Thanks for this: I'm working out which railroads preceeded which, especially with Penn Central & Conrail.

I actually caught 1030 on a manifest leaving NS Conway Yard heading Southeast, I believe it may have been 12G, but I didn't have a scanner, that same day, I caught the Savannah and Atlanta arriving in Conway, and the Wabash made a surprise appearance, although I wasn't able to get a photo, as I thought he had already passed.

Thanks for the trains that we never get to see

Born in an N&W town of Williamson, WV. They still ran some steam locomotives on the Pocahontas Division until the early 1960s.

The first NS heritage unit I’ve seen was 1074, and she went through at 08:16 CDT Christmas morning of 2020! She was rear DPU on an NB UP SATX coal train. I’m hope I can catch the other 19!

Very enjoyable.

I caught 1067 at the NS intermodal yard in Charlotte. My first time seeing a herritage unit and now 1067 is my favorite.

Great video! Cheers to the CEO that ordered the paint jobs!

NS has an Erie Lackawanna SD45-2, #1700, along with the SD70Ace. 1700 was actually originally built for the Erie Lackawanna, and was put in as an official heritage unit in addition to it's more modern counterpart.

Nice video!

Very nice video.

the conrail logo represents 2 wheels rolling down parallel tracks. something that was not always the case with predecessor PC. btw, i photoed 3091, in fresh paint in may,1976, also was my first blue CR loco.

The Original Norfolk Southern being my first heritage unit and the Interstate my second, they hold a special place in my heart. Especially since I caught them both by accident.

Henry Huttleston Rogers is buried in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, just down the street from where I live. He built a high school, church, and elementary school here as well.

about 2000, I was at the tire store and behind ran the old PRR/NW richmond,Ind branch. While waiting for the new tires, Southern green painted GP59 went by on the point. never to see it again.

this video brings back horrors of 1976. seeing PC

I got the Lehigh Valley in Johnson City TN a dew days ago

This answered a lot of questions I’ve had since Conrail was dissolved and CSX and Southern Norfolk SN split up Con Rail now I see who got who in the arrangement. Can you do the same for CSX who makes up CSX. That would be nice

You got em all!

@Trains21 Thanks! That Pan Am SD40-2 is all yours. Let's add it to your collection.

I saw the Southern Heritage Unit (NS #8099) at the Horseshoe Curve during the day, and the Virginian Heritage Unit (NS #1069) in Downtown Altoona at night recently. The first NS Heritage Unit I ever saw was the Interstate Heritage Unit (NS #8105), but I only saw it briefly because It blurred by heading east while I was riding AMTRAK's Capitol Limited westbound to Chicago.

1071 and 1069 will always be my favorite heritage units. aswell as 1074

I have all these heritage units, along with most of the UP heritage units, in Trainz:A New Era simulator. I didn't know much about them, but now I know the whole story.

1014 has the best horn I've heard on a modern diesel.

Awesome job I just caught my first ever heritage unit 1068