Red No More. On Sunday, February 25, 2024, recently rebuilt and repainted South Brooklyn Railway General Electric 47T R-47 N2 was assigned to a work train, seen at the MTA NYCT Subway Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center Station in Brooklyn, New York. The history of the South Brooklyn Railway (SBK) begins with its creation and private ownership as a freight railroad in 1887. It was later consolidated into the BMT and in 1940 control was assumed by the City of New York. When new diesels N1 and N2 were purchased in the mid-1970s, then South Brooklyn Railway Freight Manager John Johnson asked local author and transit enthusiast Ben Schaeffer to design a new logo and paint scheme for the pair. Ben not only supplied a design that was accepted with large "SBK" letters and red accented by white, but later went to work for the MTA NYCT Subway as a conductor, where he was working in his 22nd year in May 2020 when he passed away from COVID-19. This locomotive was recently rebuilt in house with a lower emissions (and much more quiet!) engine and was repainted into the Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA NYCT Subway C Division's standard yellow paint scheme for locomotives, with only the "N2" designation as a reminder of its true assignment.
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
