It wasn’t that long ago that a small armada of Armour Yellow diesels brightened the locomotive ranks of Norfolk Southern’s predominantly black diesel army. The former Uncle Petes paraded in their sunny dress throughout 2015, 2016 and much of 2017 before the painter’s spray can and the cosmetic surgeons’s scalpel finally caught up with the lot. Today, the rebuilt SD70ACC Yellow Bonnets #1800 and #1801 are all the rage but it wasn’t that long ago that a different yellow diesel was the talk of the community.
