CPKC

[lock4244]

Perhaps CanKan for short!

Lol 

[lock4244]

I think this scheme is quite sharp, and easy on the shareholder valve.

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[peteski]

But it really shows dirt!  And really difficult to find them in Canadien snow!

[TrainCat2]

I'd think it should be called CPKFC as that chicken gunna get plucked, quartered and deep fried with 11 herbs and seasons.

[learmoia]

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[Scottl]

Looks expensive.  I suspect the final paint job will be some stickers over the offending bits.

[lock4244]

But it really shows dirt!  And really difficult to find them in Canadien snow!

And having spent many years hanging out trackside in and around Toronto I can confirm that finding a CP train on a mainline in any season, snow or no, is difficult.

Where I live now is the furthest I've ever lived from a CP line, and it just feels so right.

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Probably an unpopular opinion, but the Southern Belle is easily one of the least attractive schemes to ever grace a locomotive. If it is included in any way in a new scheme, I'll actually dislike CP more now than I have post CP Rail era, if that were possible. CP ain't been right since they adopted candy apple red as their scheme.

[nkalanaga]

I like ~Ian's scheme.  And it's easily visible at grade crossings, which is more than I can say for NS, especially in mountainous or wooded areas.

[signalmaintainer]

Perhaps CanKan for short!

Bingo!

[learmoia]

I like ~Ian's scheme.  And it's easily visible at grade crossings, which is more than I can say for NS, especially in mountainous or wooded areas.

NS needs to incorporate the AC44C6M scheme across the system.


Just take the colored stripe out of the mane..

Probably an unpopular opinion, but the Southern Belle is easily one of the least attractive schemes to ever grace a locomotive. If it is included in any way in a new scheme, I'll actually dislike CP more now than I have post CP Rail era, if that were possible. CP ain't been right since they adopted candy apple red as their scheme.

I remember the BNSF merger, and then I would have preferred they put "BNSF" on the old schemes.   But united corporate image.. bla bla bla. I get it. The choice of a Great Northern scheme with a Santa Fe logo was... odd...  But it worked.  One idea that crossed my mind as typing this.. Santa Fe War Bonnet in GN Colors.. I wonder what that would look like.

To me the KCS Belle scheme is more interesting than CP Red.. but in my mockup, I didn't like the CPKC on the carbody.
It would look better as "Canadian Pacific Kansas City"  but if that isn't the company name, then it doesn't fit the scheme well.. the lettering needs to be bigger (SPSF) so the center stripe wouldn't work.

Over on Redit, someone had a good idea to solve the yellow stripe.
https://www.reddit.com/r/trains/comments/meai83/cpkc_paint_scheme/

[learmoia]

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Here is my take on that 2 color stripe idea.. Works alot better with the CPKC lettering.

Edit.. If I had to do it again, I'd move the yellow stripe and color change down to the cab/battery box transition.
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[lock4244]

CP has the opportunity to right a historic wrong and rename the company to honor it's history 

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[lock4244]

Apparently 2816 will be making a Calgary to Mexico trip sometime after the merger takes affect.

I wonder how CP plans to get around the significant handicap the gap between Chicago and Detroit presents, as well as the still restrictive Detroit River tunnel (DRT). I never understood how the CSX offer (in the 1990's) to sell the former PM between Chicago and Detroit could have ever been turned down by CP as too expensive, but using someone else's tracks to connect the RR capital with east coast ports can't be a good thing. As it is now, iirc, CP uses CSX between Chicago and Buffalo for stack trains as the hi-cubes won't fit through the DRT, and I think general freight still moves across the PM. This is a huge handicap. I expect they'll move some of it via Winnipeg, at least lower priority stuff.

[nkalanaga]

~Ian:  I like your second one, although I think I prefer the first.  The second does work better with the initials.

Part of the reason the early BNSF GN/SF combination worked was that the GN's logo was also round, so the new logo fit the scheme.  And, with the name around the outside, and across the center, it looked "railroady", not like some modern graphic artist's creation.  I know, a lot of people didn't like the change, but it "fit".

The original BN green locos were similar, in that the scheme, designed in the late 60s, looked very good on old cab units.  A string of F3/5/7s in BN Cascade Green, with a train of 40 ft grain boxes, looked "right".