Canadian Railroads > CN100: Special loco paint scheme, Travelling container show

CN is celebrating the 100th anniversary
of the incorporation of the Canadian National Railways
by an Act of Parliament on June 6, 1919.

There is at least one new locomotive with a special CN 100 paint scheme.

CN is planning a two year tour of the United States and Canada.
Modified shipping containers will form a display.
Musical artists will perform.
Exclusive events for employees are planned.

High profile stops in 2019 include,
The Calgary Stampede
Klondike Days in Edmonton.
Pier 21 at Halifax.

https://www.cn100.ca/en/


 

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Ugly

kinda a heritage scheme 

Designed by the CBC I guess !

Mike Bannon
St Catharines, ON

Hello,

after visiting the homepage seeing the animated European style steam locomotive with buffers and all...
In the age of computer technology, they seem to take their heritage seriously and maybe even paid for this.

kbs651

Not much effort put into it. But Canada is a laid back understated kinda country. I think I'll move there.

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The-late-EMD Wrote:
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> Not much effort put into it. But Canada is a laid
> back understated kinda country. I think I'll move
> there.
>
> Posted from Android

If they will let you....

That's the best they could come up with? Their 15th Anniversery units a few years back were way cooler

arizonaBNSF Wrote:
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> That's the best they could come up with? Their
> 15th Anniversery units a few years back were way
> cooler

Different anniversary BTW.

That is just pathetic! At the very least, they should have boosted the fonts by 20%, then put it in a red parallelogram whose sides aligned with the white separation stripe.
Fred

feclark Wrote:
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> That is just pathetic! 

I consider it to be much more tasteful than some of the monstrosities coming out of the US.

 

Will MacKenzie
Dundas, ON



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/04/19 06:55 by thehighwayman.

For 100 years that's a pretty crappy design.  It looks like some just painted a red stripe, slapped the logo and 100 on it and called it a day.

They should follow ONR's lead and paint up at least one unit in heritage colours.

v1perfan Wrote:
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> For 100 years that's a pretty crappy design.  It
> looks like some just painted a red stripe, slapped
> the logo and 100 on it and called it a day.
>
> They should follow ONR's lead and paint up at
> least one unit in heritage colours.

And what would heritage colours be?  100 years ago CN trains were powered by steam locomotives, painted black. This comes pretty close to that.

In the diesel era, for a brief decade, some CN locomotives were painted in green, black and yellow (sometimes gold). But as of 1961, the official colours have been red, white and black, and the scheme on this unit has got that nailed.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/05/19 00:34 by railsmith.