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Between 1995 and 1998, CSX painted a number of older locomotives which had been assigned to Maintenance Of Way service into a high-visibility “safety” scheme, which railfans dubbed “The Great Pumpkins”. A total of 69 locomotives received the treatment, mostly older GP-38 and GP-40 diesels. A handful of GE products were also painted, including #9556 (former Seaboard Coast Line #5145), the only B23-7 to become a Great Pumpkin.

CSX eventually realized that repainting locomotives that were likely to be retired soon made little economic sense, and the Great Pumpkins faded away into history.

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