News Wire: CP begins painting 'Beaver' logo on locomotives

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Lyon_Wonder

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Posted by Lyon_Wonder on Thursday, July 20, 2017 8:07 PM

IIRC, CP stopped using the Beaver becasue it wouldn't properly fit on the ES44AC's long hood.

Miningman

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Posted by Miningman on Thursday, July 20, 2017 5:54 PM

Well they did this before and it really didn't hold up very well.

It is very nice don't get me wrong. I just think it needs better definition and perhaps some multi colour as in the original. Probably too costly ..hope it stands up well and has an impact.

SD70M-2Dude

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Posted by SD70M-2Dude on Thursday, July 20, 2017 5:27 PM

Cool! A very fitting thing to do. For the sake of CP's employees I hope this is more than just perfuming the pig, and that some real change is afoot in upper management (not holding my breath though).

Greetings from Alberta

-an Articulate Malcontent

daveklepper

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, July 20, 2017 1:16 PM

Good news.

Brian Schmidt

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Thursday, July 20, 2017 1:14 PM

ALBIA, Iowa — Canadian Pacific has reintroduced its heritage logo to the side of its locomotives. Earlier this month, AC400CWs Nos. 9835 and 8639 were released from the paint booth at Relco in Albia with the logo on the long hood. The logo, fir...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/07/20-beaver-return

Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine