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[alstom]

I have a weird question. I have been seeing various pictures of Soo Line engines in the "Candy Apple Red" paint scheme. The question, under the cab window it says something about CP Rail. I was wondering what it said.[?][?]

Thanks,
Richard

[nanaimo73]

Is this what you mean ?
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=150218
I can't read the first line. The second line says CP Rail System
Look around on
www.rrpicturearchives.net
for a better view.

[alstom]

Thanks for your help.[:)][:)]

Richard

[Anonymous]

CP rail with the hexagonal designed "C" was the Canadian Pacific's self-description from around 1970 to its reincorporation in the late 1990s.

CP rail was at one time only first-among-equals in a transportation network that included CP Ships and CP Air.

I think CP Air was sold off and became the biggest private Canadian airline (Air Canada is gov't subsidized). I'm not sure if it's still around.

CP Ships (NYSE symbol: "TEU") is no longer part of Canadian Pacific but is otherwise alive and well and making money in the shipping-container business from Canada to all sorts of overseas ports.

When you see the old "CP Rail" remember that it's from the 1970s; newer designs from the late 1990s are a throwback to pre WWII tradition: especially the beaver and
"CP" on the loco cab with "Canadian Pacific Railway" on the side.

American fans note that it is Can. Pac. RailWAY, not railrROAD. The Anglo influence.

Further info about logo designs is easy to find: go to the CP corporate site at www.cpr.ca, select "Store" and "Heritage" and there is a dedicted interactive link to "CP Logos."