Canadian Railroads > How Many were like this

Curious on this. We caught this one on an EB/SB Grain Train on the BNSF at Baxter Co., which lies east of Pueblo Co on the ex ATSF. CP AC44CW 8642. 07-31-2021. What I am interested in is the Dual Flag plus the Golden Beaver emblem on the long hood. Don't recall really seeing many of these thru the years. How many were done like this?  Thanks for any replies. Ben 

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ns2557 Wrote:
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> Curious on this. We caught this one on an EB/SB Grain Train on the BNSF
> at Baxter Co. ... CP AC44CW 8642. 07-31-2021. What I am interested in is
> the Dual Flag plus the Golden Beaver emblem on the long hood. Don't recall
> really seeing many of these thru the years. How many were done like this? 

I believe there were four AC4400CWs painted like that: CP 8638, 8642, 9773, and 9774. All four were painted for & used to pull CP’s annual Holiday Train.

This is not the "Dual Flags" paint scheme but rather two flags added to the "Golden Rodent" paint scheme.  The flags were added to the locomotives that pulled CP's Holiday train which was started on Dec 15, 1999.  The train(s) ran both in Canada as well as the USA. I'm sure some one on this board will know all the units that were so decorated. I've seen 9774 with the flags added to its flanks.  Another year I saw 9815 pulling the train but it had real flags flying from the cab, one American, the other Canadian.

Gerry Gaugl
Ottawa ON



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/01/21 19:35 by moonliter.

Habu Wrote:
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> I believe there were four AC4400CWs painted like
> that: CP 8638, 8642, 9773, and 9774. All four
> were painted for & used to pull CP’s annual
> Holiday Train.

I think that is correct. Those four still have some traces of the flags, although in some cases these have faded to simply a shiny silvery surface. 8638-8642 were used in 2001-02, the first years to have a dedicated U.S. train, and were followed in 2003 by 9773-9774.

Other AC4400CW units used in Holiday Train service were 9587 (in 2000), 9713-9714 (2005-06), 9769-9772 (2004), 9815-9824 (2007-13). But to my knowledge, those did not receive these flags, and neither did SD90-43MAC 9114, which led the first Holiday Train in 1999.