Well, I just saw a post made by Southern Plains Railfan on YT. CPKC has started to patch locomotives, and KCS 4150 seems to be the first to get patched. I wonder how fast CPKC is going to be patching these up and how long it's going to before we see an official CPKC livery.
Here's that post if anyone is interested:https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxrCBV-wj4iqDtaiPVOHfw7G-9aUkNAvZh
That's really sad... better to just leave as is than to pay someone to patch it like that..
Ulrich That's really sad... better to just leave as is than to pay someone to patch it like that..
To be honest, I'm surprised a stencil got used. I guessed for the first patch I would see it would just have been someone who spray painted on the reporting mark and eyeballed it.
Burlington Northern had stencils for patch renumbering from the start and I can remember seeing re-numbered power within a week or two of merger day.
Thank You.
Maybe some internal graffiti? Almost certainly not official. KCS employees have pride of their loco paint job.
I do understand the necessity of "rebadging" the power for UMLER or whatever. The thing I can't figure out is why this wasn't done with cut-vinyl lettering that would be infinitely better legible, applied over a quickly-cleaned patch of cab side. It's not as if the need to patch units comes as a surprise...
blue streak 1 Maybe some internal graffiti? Almost certainly not official. KCS employees have pride of their loco paint job.
"You belong to "us" now..."
As someone pointed out, at least they used a stencil and didn't do it freehand...
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tree68 blue streak 1 Maybe some internal graffiti? Almost certainly not official. KCS employees have pride of their loco paint job. "You belong to "us" now..." As someone pointed out, at least they used a stencil and didn't do it freehand...
I just checked out the Canadian Railway Observation Facebook site and I see no mention whatsoever of CPKC starting to patch KCS or CP locomotives. There's not even a CPKC painted loco at this point, which I find very strange. Figured they would have unveiled one of those on April 14th.
Can of Krylon and cardboard stencil is a great way to generate some instagram views.
rdamon Can of Krylon and cardboard stencil is a great way to generate some instagram views.
A la the C&O for Progress ex-CSX SD70ACe a few years back. If TRAINS hadn't stuck their nose into the situation and made some official inquiries, that gem would have lasted a lot longer.
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