F-units

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The commercial was filmed at the Farmville station (try doing that now!) and featured local people in some key roles, including Farmville fire chief Phillip Gay as the band leader.  I think it was called "Hero returns home" and was about the return of a hometown boy who went away and made good.

Sam Putney
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  The F unit in the Pepsi commercial was in the January 1980 issue of Trains.   A member of the Winston-Salem chapter NRHS took the picture.  In fact I used just a couple of months ago in an issue of our newsletter.  I will dig out the picture and post it.

  George Weber



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  >The one picture I saw many years ago, in Trains, that I have been unsuccessful in following up, was a view through a door of the nose of a unit (looked black, but it was a B&W picture) with a block 70s style NW.The caption referred to it as "CNJ  (N&W)".

  I believe that the photo that you are referring to is of a Clinchfield F-unit that was painted solid black with white NW lettering.  This was done for a Pepsi commercial, after which the unit was repainted in the black and yellow scheme.



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