Canadian Railroads > Variety, thy name was AMT

For much of the the late 2000's and into the 2010's the AMT commuter agency in Montreal had an unbelievable variety in terms of paint schemes, motive power and cars. The following are 5 photos from the afternoon rush hour in Montreal West on October 30th, 2012 displaying the variety in paint schemes and motive power. Nowadays the AMT presents a much more uniform image in terms of paint scheme, though at least there is a bit of motive power variety left, with Bombardier ALP-45D's being used on top of EMD F59PH's and F59PHI's.

1-F59PHI AMT 1326 at left is leaving with a train for Saint-Jérôme, while F59PH AMT 530 at right pushes a deadhead train eastwards.

2-F40PH-2CAT AMT 4118 was a New Jersey Transit unit (same number on NJT) on long term lease to the AMT. It pushes another deadhead train eastwards.

3-F40PHR AMT 330 was born as AMTK 365 and was later in use on the Virginia Railway Express as VRE 33 before migrating to Montreal. It is on the tail end of a westbound.

Michael Berry



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/01/16 17:22 by Mberry.

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4&5-An outbound train has two F59PH's shoving (RBRX 18551 & RBRX 18533). Note that 18551 has its unit number spraypainted on the nose. 18533 is painted for Michigan Transit; it was to be used for a commuter train in Detroit that never got off the ground. It was in use in California on Metrolink as recently as 2015 in this same paint scheme.

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It's hard to make out the paint scheme on the NJT leaser F40 -- is it basically solid NJT platinum mist with black roof?

CPR_4000 Wrote:
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> It's hard to make out the paint scheme on the NJT
> leaser F40 -- is it basically solid NJT platinum
> mist with black roof?

It is the original NJT paint scheme, unchanged other than a small AMT logo being added on the long hood.

Michael

Without the disco stripes, if a photo I found of the GP40FH-2's is typical. Nice variety!

Nice variety.  However going back not that long ago one could have and would have seen, FP7's, FP9's, FPA2's, RS18's, RS10's, E8's, SW1200RS's, Budd RDC's etc.. I am probably missing some  And before that the beautiful Steam Locomotives that the CPR had.

Most commuter railroads strive for dull uniformity.
The LIRR has 2 types of MU cars (1,000 of them), 1 type of diesel coach (134), and 2 variants of the same Super Steel engine (45).

That is one intimidating front end on the 530! They needed a logo. Interesting posts.
Fred

Variety is the spice of life.

Happy holidays to all.
Jim
Hatboro, PA