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Check out this picture. It's Amtrak in the TOYOTA TUNDRA SPECIAL PAINT SCHEME!

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Anonymous
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Check out this picture. It's Amtrak in the TOYOTA TUNDRA SPECIAL PAINT SCHEME!
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 23, 2005 11:35 AM
It's Amtrak in Toyota Tundra Paint, with a red Toyota Tundra pick-up on the side! Amtrak had a deal with Toyota to have two engines painted in this scheme. Amtrak #84 and Amtrak #115 were the two engines painted in this scheme! On the back of the engine, it has "The Powerful Toyota Tundra". Here is a picture of one of the engines painted in this special Toyota Tundra paint scheme, Amtrak #84.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=85751

Thanks for looking!
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chad thomas
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Posted by chad thomas on Saturday, April 23, 2005 11:41 AM
I caught that very unit in Cajon pass on the Chief a couple weekends back. It's different, that's for sure.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 23, 2005 11:46 AM
Cool. I haven't seen it since it has been switched back to Phase 5. I caught #115 too. It was almost dark at the time.
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Posted by eastside on Saturday, April 23, 2005 1:34 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Jimitrain


http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=85751

I'm sure you have the best of intentions, but this link causes a popup that tries to install spyware.
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Posted by adrianspeeder on Saturday, April 23, 2005 1:44 PM
Any link opened with internet explorer nowadays does spyware. Railpictures just happens to be a real bad site. Switch to Firefox from www.mozilla.com Dont even need a popup blocker.

Toyota???
baaaah

Adrianspeeder

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Posted by eastside on Saturday, April 23, 2005 4:24 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by adrianspeeder

Any link opened with internet explorer nowadays does spyware.

Not true. I guess your Web surfing habits are different. Few sites that I visit do so. I consider such a practice unethical and those that do I never visit again. Personally, if I gave such a link I would give a heads up in addition.
QUOTE: Railpictures just happens to be a real bad site. Switch to Firefox from www.mozilla.com Dont even need a popup blocker.

That's for sure! I already use FF and having popup block on doesn't prevent a determined Web programmer from displaying child windows.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 23, 2005 4:46 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by adrianspeeder

Any link opened with internet explorer nowadays does spyware. Railpictures just happens to be a real bad site. Switch to Firefox from www.mozilla.com Dont even need a popup blocker.

Toyota???
baaaah

Adrianspeeder


YES!!! No spyware for months!!!
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Posted by mustanggt on Saturday, April 23, 2005 4:55 PM
QUOTE: Toyota???
baaaah

Have you see the new "full size" Tundra? as far as I know it's still smaller than the F150........

Anyways, The engine reminds me of some VIA engines I saw on some website. But those were even wierder. One Loco had Kool-Aid man on the nose [:0] Real nice pic though
[8D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 23, 2005 6:23 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by eastside

QUOTE: Originally posted by Jimitrain


http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=85751

I'm sure you have the best of intentions, but this link causes a popup that tries to install spyware.


That's probably the pop-up that says you have spyware installed on your computer, lol. It's just an ad, its not harmful.

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Posted by K. P. Harrier on Saturday, April 23, 2005 7:09 PM
Tundras are powerful. When did Amtrak start pulling their trains with Toyota trucks? Somehow I think I missed something ...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K.P.’s absolute “theorem” from early, early childhood that he has seen over and over and over again: Those that CAUSE a problem in the first place will act the most violently if questioned or exposed.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 23, 2005 11:37 PM
K.P. Harrier, I'd say it was mid November. [:)]
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Posted by vsmith on Sunday, April 23, 2006 11:35 AM
Dont like...this is like painting McDonalds advertisements on the sides of all those cows standing in a field along the side of the road....

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 23, 2006 12:22 PM
Is Amtrak going the way of city buses to raise revenue for the railroad? At least they could have painted an American truck on the sides of these engines.
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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Monday, April 24, 2006 2:13 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

Dont like...this is like painting McDonalds advertisements on the sides of all those cows standing in a field along the side of the road....

I'd say it falls somewhere between a CTA bus and all those barns along US 41 that had ads for Rock City or Mail Pouch painted on their roofs.
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Posted by ajmiller on Monday, April 24, 2006 2:33 PM
It's like the Russians painting Pizza Hut logos on their rockets.
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Posted by DrummingTrainfan on Monday, April 24, 2006 4:57 PM
I don't see anything wrong with being a little creative when trying to figure out a way to get some revenue. Now if it gets to where the engines look like a NASCAR on tracks, it's gone too far; but one advertisement per loco? It seems to be a win-win to me for all sides involved.
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Posted by wallyworld on Monday, April 24, 2006 5:29 PM
Yuck

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

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Posted by SchemerBob on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:06 PM
They shouldn't get too carried away, or they may just quit having standard paint schemes.
Long live the BNSF .... AND its paint scheme. SchemerBob
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Posted by METRO on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:32 PM
VIA has been doing this for a while as has pretty much every regional transit system in America.

One of the best looking was the VIA Telus F40PH, in fact it was so good that I'm doing one of the locomotives on my HO scale line in the Telus scheme.

Cheers!
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:43 PM
I can't say that I like this. I've seen this one other time as well.

If you're gonna paint a truck on an Amtrak locomotive, why not use a real man's truck-a Dodge Ram 1500 with a 5.7 liter HEMI. My Dodge Ram only wishes it had a HEMI in it...I do too.[8D]
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Posted by M636C on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:20 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Michael27

Is Amtrak going the way of city buses to raise revenue for the railroad? At least they could have painted an American truck on the sides of these engines.


The Toyota Tundra IS an American Truck.

As I understand it, the Tundra is ONLY built and sold in the United States. The company is not US owned, and imports components from Asia, but it does employ US workers to assemble the trucks in America.

M636C
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Posted by CMSTPP on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:21 PM
uuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmm???????? Why?????

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Posted by FThunder11 on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:30 PM
Amtrak has very little money, this was one wa to make a little extra cash!
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