Canadian Railroads > Exporail's new SW1200RS

Fresh from the Exporail paint shop SW1200RS #1382 (formerly 7300) operated today on the museum's passenger shuttle. The paint work was completed only yesterday. During the coming week the number boards will be replaced to match the unit's original number.

Plans include replacing the conical stacks with the distinctive CN barrel-type spark arrestors.

KG



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/20/14 14:57 by kgmontreal.

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Jason Shron's not gonna like this! ;)
It Looks really nice, but is that new number on the battery box the right typeface? seems thick...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/20/14 17:36 by DrLoco.

DrLoco Wrote:
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> Jason Shron's not gonna like this! ;)
> It Looks really nice, but is that new number on
> the battery box the right typeface? seems thick...

And the typeface on the Canadian National looks a bit thin.
But what the heck, it runs and it looks good doing it.

The typeface for the number is not correct. But can be restencilled.

KG

DrLoco Wrote:
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> Jason Shron's not gonna like this! ;)
> It Looks really nice, but is that new number on
> the battery box the right typeface? seems thick...

We all know that, as far as Canadian railway heritage is concerned, the universe imploded in 1961.

To paint a CN locomotive in a post-1961 paint scheme would be insensitive to all of the guadrillions of sentient lifeforms who perished in the heat death of the cosmos.

-Jason

Meh, I liked her better in the noodle scheme she came with when donated to the museum. Funny thing is, I have one of the original and one of the PSC rebuild builders plates for this locomotive. The original plate still has some CN orange on, so now it won't look good if re attached to the loco :)

Trevor

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> To paint a CN locomotive in a post-1961 paint
> scheme would be insensitive to all of the
> guadrillions of sentient lifeforms who perished in
> the heat death of the cosmos.
>
Ah, I see. We can reverse global warming by merely painting all locomotives into 1959 paint schemes. Very clever, Dr Shron.

KG

The other preserved CN SW1200 on the Alberta Prairie Railway has the correct fonts but says Alberta Prairie.

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