Canadian Railroads > Get your matched trains while you can

As Ray Murphy's recent post shows, Montreal's commuter agency has adopted a new branding and soon will repaint all cars in the 'Allo Exo' paint scheme. It sounds like this will be slow process; for now only one car out of hundreds is painted as far as I know. Yesterday I shot a few Candiac-line trains crossing the St. Lawrence River into Montreal before I caught a train to take me downtown, all were in matching paint schemes.

1-AMT 1323 pushes a deadhead move towards the South Shore.

2&3-Zoomed and wide shots of RMT 76 approaching the island of Montreal with AMT 1347 leading.

Michael Berry



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/15/18 18:16 by Mberry.

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4-Finally I got a second deadhead move, this time from street level, with AMT 1340 pushing another train towards the South Shore.

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NICE.

CP's St.Lawrence River bridge is a fine structure. I see evidence in the stone piers that it was twinned at one time.

CP had a habit of reusing bridge spans. A very well known one is the Niagara Canyon bridge on the E&N on Vancouver Island which originally crossed the Fraser River at Cisco on the main land.

CP has a long bridge at Outlook, Saskatchewan over the North Saskatchewan River. I was told that the many spans of that bridge came from the St.Lawrence Bridge in Montreal.

Anybody know?

eminence_grise Wrote:
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> CP's St.Lawrence River bridge is a fine structure.
> I see evidence in the stone piers that it was
> twinned at one time.
>
> CP had a habit of reusing bridge spans. A very
> well known one is the Niagara Canyon bridge on the
> E&N on Vancouver Island which originally crossed
> the Fraser River at Cisco on the main land.
>
> CP has a long bridge at Outlook, Saskatchewan over
> the North Saskatchewan River. I was told that the
> many spans of that bridge came from the
> St.Lawrence Bridge in Montreal.
>
> Anybody know?

By twinned, do you mean two bridges with four tracks total at one point, as opposed to the current one bridge with two tracks total? I don't believe that was ever the case. When it was first built it was single tracked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Laurent_Railway_Bridge

Michael

Mberry Wrote:
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> As Ray Murphy's recent post shows, Montreal's
> commuter agency has adopted a new branding and
> soon will repaint all cars in the 'Allo Exo' paint
> scheme. It sounds like this will be slow process;
> for now only one car out of hundreds is painted as
> far as I know.

Having looked at the Allo Exo car I don't think it's paint. I think it's a wrap which should speed up the process.

KG

kgmontreal Wrote:
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> Mberry Wrote:
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> > As Ray Murphy's recent post shows, Montreal's
> > commuter agency has adopted a new branding and
> > soon will repaint all cars in the 'Allo Exo'
> paint
> > scheme. It sounds like this will be slow
> process;
> > for now only one car out of hundreds is painted
> as
> > far as I know.
>
> Having looked at the Allo Exo car I don't think
> it's paint. I think it's a wrap which should
> speed up the process.
>
> KG

This is true, but the Allo Exo site still says the process will take a few years.

"This transition will happen very gradually, over a few years, so as not to disrupt the delivery of the service and in order to limit the cost of deployment. "

https://exo.quebec/en/index.html

Michael

Great photos. The wavy blue paint scheme looks right at home over a big water body.

Nice!

Very cool shots!!

Larry

I guess my age is showing, but these strange paint schemes on both cars and locomotives that take no account of the natural lines leave me cold. Whatever happened to having the railroad name on the letterboard, and a traditional scheme - such as these CNR inspired schemes on the Alberta Prairie Railway??

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Alberta_Prairie_Railway_Excursions_3412.jpg

JGFuller Wrote:
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> I guess my age is showing, but these strange paint
> schemes on both cars and locomotives that take no
> account of the natural lines leave me cold.
> Whatever happened to having the railroad name on
> the letterboard, and a traditional scheme - such
> as these CNR inspired schemes on the Alberta
> Prairie Railway??
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e
> 5/Alberta_Prairie_Railway_Excursions_3412.jpg

I have to agree; what's going on with the paint schemes these days??
I like the "swoosh" on AMT 1324 in the first photo, but then it would've looked sharp to just have the stripes carry on down the train. All that wavy, bumpy-ness, looks ridiculous!