Top: Norfolk Southern honored the Wabash Railway with SD70ACe No. 1070, which rolled out of the Muncie, Ind., EMD shop June 21, 2012, wearing the Wabash diesel paint scheme and its flag emblem.

Bottom: Wabash H24-66 Train Master 550 (formerly Fairbanks-Morse demonstrator TM-1) shows off the color scheme worn by Wabash road diesels — cab units and road-switchers alike — in the 1950s. The “right-handed” flag on the engineer’s side of No. 550 is unusual, as the Wabash’s emblem was nearly always rendered with the staff on the left. Only cab units featured the flag on their nose. NS 1070 incorporates both these features. The road switched to a solid blue with gold striping a few years before being merged into N&W in 1964.