Five New CP Commerative Units Unveiled Today

[Lenny53]

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/11/11-canadian-pacific-unveils-five-locomotives-honoring-canadian-armed-forces

[wazzou]

Nice.  I see Don Cherry won't be doing his Coach's Corner any longer. 

[learmoia]

Nice.  I see Don Cherry won't be doing his Coach's Corner any longer. 

I assume they are recognizing Canadian Armed forces, I get the navy one, but what do the other units represent?..

Nothing seemed to honor the mounted police..
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They look cool though..

I hope they expand on the heritage scheme to include PacMan and maybe some heritage lines.. E&N, Milwaukee, Soo, D&H.. I'm sure there are others (THB?)

~Ian

[Lenny53]

I assume they are recognizing Canadian Armed forces, I get the navy one, but what do the other units represent?..

~Ian

RCAF Spitfire colours from WW2, RCAF CF-18 colours, Army dark green NATO colour, and Army desert colour.

[lock4244]

I assume they are recognizing Canadian Armed forces, I get the navy one, but what do the other units represent?..

Nothing seemed to honor the mounted police..
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They look cool though..

I hope they expand on the heritage scheme to include PacMan and maybe some heritage lines.. E&N, Milwaukee, Soo, D&H.. I'm sure there are others (THB?)

~Ian

RCMP registered Disney Trademark.

I was told that there will be no Multimark, or any further heritage units. I hope I was lied to.

[cv_acr]

CP 7020 - NATO green (armour/vehicles)
CP 7021 - desert sand (armour/vehicles)
CP 7022 - RCN ships
CP 7023 - RCAF jets
CP 6644 - D-Day memorial (Spitfire Camo with invasion stripes)

[Sharky_McSharknose]

Those are very sharp-looking!

[ljudice]

Honoring the military is great, but this business of painting locos in camouflage colors seems like its asking for trouble....

[davefoxx]

Honoring the military is great, but this business of painting locos in camouflage colors seems like its asking for trouble....

Those schemes certainly can't be any worse than a black NS locomotive in the dark.  That's why there are conspicuity stripes.

DFF

[davefoxx]

I assume they are recognizing Canadian Armed forces, I get the navy one, but what do the other units represent?..

If you look close, they have a Canadian flag on one side and a U.S. flag on the other, as apparently an homage to the military service of both countries.

DFF

[basementcalling]

So who will be the first to add these commemorative schemes to their model lineup: Fox Valley? Kato? (cough cough), BLI?  Someone definitely should. The Spitfire scheme is my favorite.  Kudos to CP.

[cv_acr]

So who will be the first to add these commemorative schemes to their model lineup: Fox Valley? Kato? (cough cough), BLI?  Someone definitely should. The Spitfire scheme is my favorite.  Kudos to CP.

Well first someone actually needs to make a model of this type of engine.

[learmoia]

Well it looks like a Tier 3 SD70ACe.. what is it really?..

Sd90MAC rebuild?..

Kato?

~Ian

[mu26aeh]

Well it looks like a Tier 3 SD70ACe.. what is it really?..

Sd90MAC rebuild?..

Kato?

~Ian

The SD70ACU is a SD90MAC rebuild done by NS and Progress Rail (according to SD70ACU Wiki... )  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_SD70ACU

[learmoia]

So an SD70ACe cab on an SD90MAC...

(Likely more than that.. but that's the biggest spotting feature.)
...NS units may have 2 fan radiators?

The paint schemes are unique enough that I could see Kato doing a new cab and release the CP heritage and Troop units.

But paint SD90s and 90% wouldnt care..

~Ian