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images floating on the internet, any better pics out there yet?

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I received these today.

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Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/11/19 10:47 by pedrop.

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What these painting schemes mean? Honor to military?

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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thanks, no action red here!   

yes Canada and the US celebrate the end of WWI  and WWII

in the US it was called armistice day then after WWII it was changed to veterans day here in the US 11-11

In Canada  i think they wear poppies in November to  commerate this, other please chime in



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/11/19 10:54 by dan.

I like the 6644 with the camo and D-Day invasion stripes. Not sure about the others.
 

newtonville150 Wrote:
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> I like the 6644 with the camo and D-Day invasion
> stripes. Not sure about the others.
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I think 7022 looks simple yet *epic*

Something about the color on the body with that deep blood orange color on the frame/tank/trucks.

zorz Wrote:
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> newtonville150 Wrote:
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> > I like the 6644 with the camo and D-Day
> invasion
> > stripes. Not sure about the others.
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> I think 7022 looks simple yet *epic*
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> Something about the color on the body with that
> deep blood orange color on the frame/tank/trucks.

Painted to look like a ship.  Black stripe being the waterline.

I received these also....

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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I hope someboby can add more pics here

Pedro

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/11/19 11:36 by pedrop.

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dan Wrote:

> yes Canada and the US celebrate the end of WWI 
> and WWII
>
> in the US it was called armistice day then after
> WWII it was changed to veterans day here in the US
> 11-11

That is correct. Armistice Day became a Federal Holliday in 1938. 

In 1945 WWII Veteran Raymond Weeks led the call to make it "Veterans Day" to honor all Veterans of war, he was able to win General Eisenhower support. Weeks led the 1st national Armistice Veterans Day celebration in 1947. 

In May 1954 it became an officially Federal Holliday "Armistice Day" & was renamed Veterans Day in June 1954. it was signed into law by then President Eisenhower.  


> In Canada  i think they wear poppies in November
> to  commemorate this, other please chime in

Poppies & Armistice Day go back to the 1920's they are sold to raise funds for veterans charities. Primarily popular in Britain, Commonwealths & Canada. They tend to be sold starting in October & most wear them up to & including on Veterans/Remembrance Day.

In Great Britain and Commonwealths its Remembrance Day & Remembrance Sunday (They are celebrated but not National Holidays).

Poland celebrates it but as a National Independence Day since 1918 was when it regained independence from Prussia after 120+ years.

IN France & Belgium its still known as Armistice Day and Federal Holliday. I think Serbia (Which had the largest casualty rate in WWI) celebrates it as a Holliday since the early 2010's.

Australia & New Zealand commemorate Anzac Day in April of each year. This is much like Veterans / Remembrance day.
 

Here (Nova Scotia) everything is closed today in honour of Veterans. You will not find even a Walmart or Sobeys open. At 11am this morning we had a large turnout at the Cenotaph for a wreath laying

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Thank you Canadian Pacific.  Love them all!!!!

CP is creating quite a fleet of specialty locomotives.

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dan Wrote:
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> In Canada  i think they wear poppies in November
> to  commerate this, other please chime in

Poppies are also given for donations in the USA, but usually just before Memorial Day, the last Monday in May in the USA.

The Poppies come from John McCrae's epic poem "In Flander's Fields"In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,    That mark our place; and in the sky    The larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,    Loved and were loved, and now we lie,        In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throw    The torch; be yours to hold it high.    If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow        In Flanders fields.

 

These units look fabulous!

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> These units look fabulous!

You and I may not agree on everything, but I second that.....!!

And BTW thank you to Pedro for forwarding these.

Imagine photos from Calgary, Alberta, sent to a gentleman in Brazil and then viewed by myself in Montreal, Quebec.

It is the power of the internet

pedro

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> And BTW thank you to Pedro for forwarding these.
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> Imagine photos from Calgary, Alberta, sent to a
> gentleman in Brazil and then viewed by myself in
> Montreal, Quebec.

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Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

I stopped by Ogden this afternoon. They were being pulled back from the earlier viewing area.

15:45 MT

 

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As a Yank, you Canadians should be DAMN PROUD of these locomotives. We (Canadians and the US) could NOT have won the war without our Allies. God Bless Canada for remembering  OUR Heroes!!  ×