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Metro-North Railroad is decorating five diesel locomotives with special colors and designs as a Heritage Series to highlight the railroad’s 40 years of service to the public. Craft workers at Metro-North’s North White Plains Shop applied a vinyl wrap to Metro-North P32ACDM 208, the first locomotive to be rebranded. The colors of silver, blue and red pay homage to Metro-North’s original “Beach Ball” livery created upon the railroad’s founding in 1983 for the railroad’s historic FL9 locomotives, and worn by them until the last was retired in April 2007.
Additional locomotives will be wrapped in the heritage liveries that were worn by predecessor railroads, including Penn Central/MTA blue-and-yellow, Conrail blue-and-yellow, New York Central lightning stripe, and a unit dedicated to Metro-North employees. All will remain in service for the foreseeable future. Metro-North locomotive 208 is one of 31 General Electric P32ACDM models the railroad uses to provide service on the northern extensions of its Hudson and Harlem Lines in New York State, and on the New Haven Line’s Danbury and Waterbury branches in Connecticut…