By M.T.Burkhart

The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway’s paint shop has been busy. Recently, the regional railroad painted its four EMD SD70M-2 locomotives in the line’s classic “Yellowjacket” scheme.

The former Norfolk Southern diesels emerged from the Butler, N.J., shops over the past eight weeks where a contractor applied the yellow and black paint. Since then, they have been found in general freight duty, including working the railroad’s flagship SU-99 and SU-100 road freights between northern New Jersey and Binghamton, N.Y.

Like the GE B40-8 locomotives purchased new a generation ago, numbers 4060, 4062, 4064 and 4066 have “Susquehanna” spelled out on the nose along with the railroad’s logo. That’s a recent change from locomotives sporting just a nose logo.

Also emerging from the Butler shop recently was SD40-2 3024 wearing a “heritage” rendition of the silver and maroon that graced the Susquehanna’s Alcos more than 50 years ago. That locomotive has been working recently out of Ridgefield Park, NJ.