BR&P wrote:LOL, what a bunch of wadded panties over a "u" or an "m". Scot has it right - there is no "official" power with authority to mandate a "proper" term. Railfans can call them whatever they want, but if a given railroad calls it one or the other, that's about as "official" as you can get for that particular railroad. I somehow doubt that a railfan letter to a railroad taking them to task for the "improper" use of a suffix would be met with anything more than a chuckle and derision.
And since "heritage" units and historical paint schemes seem to be in vogue, you can start lobbying LA&L now to paint #14 into BCK, CR or ONCT lettering.
yep, I think it has been pretty well established that RS3u has never actually existed (on the D&H)..
but is there known evidence for RS3m on the D&H..
Now, what will LAL choose?
that could make a new official designation!
I like the heritage paint idea!
She never wore Conrail paint though..
She wore two Buffalo Creek paint schemes:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopi ... x?id=77966" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
She then went through her Conrail years in Buffalo Creek bicentennial paint, and arrive on the NYLE, post-Conrail,
still in BC paint:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/LocoPi ... ?id=127501" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Third paintscheme, ONCT:
(which is actually very close to the standard LAL scheme!)
Then forth paintscheme, the current LV-inspired Tioga Central scheme.
It appears the RS3 and the S2 have headed out to Olean yesterday or today.
Scot