| 3.3.2024 C&O Heritage Center, Clifton Forge, VA. SD40 #7534 represents an important era in CSX history as well as the ongoing pride of workmanship of the employees at the CSX Huntington Locomotive Shop. The locomotive passed through the shop many times during its 40 years of active service, making the restoration at Huntington “poetically appropriate,” according to the historical society that preserves and celebrates the heritage of the iconic C&O Railway that has become part of the CSX system. SD40 #7534 was one of the last of its type to arrive on the C&O in the color scheme of the era — an “enchantment blue” body with “federal yellow” lettering and trim. Eventually, it was repainted with the CSX colors. |