Did Glen Yard repainted in Action Red all stainless Budd car over one week-end
? Show me a picture with tuscan and Pacman Budd passanger car on same train!
Paul
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On 2011-11-24 22:23:23 +0000 cv_acr <cv_acr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can anyone tell me when diesels stared to be repainted in action red and
Pacman logo? Also when did passenger stock go from red to silver and red
stripe?
The MultiMark (can we please stop calling it Pacman? The iconic video game
was not invented until 12 years later) was introduced as CP's corporate logo
in late fall of 1968. Different colours distinguished CP Rail, CP Air, CP
Ships, CP Hotels, CP Express, etc. They all used the multimark and italicized
lettering.
So call it ~1969 that you'd realistically start seeing any Multi-mark painted
equipment in any sort of numbers.
The multimark scheme was also colour-coded on various equipment.
Red - Locomotives*, flatcars, gondolas, most boxcars
Black - hoppers, covered hoppers, drop-bottom coal gons
Green - paper service boxcars
Yellow - insulated boxcars, cabooses
Silver - Mechanical refridgerator cars
Dark Blue - "robot" remote control cars
*The original proposal was for locomotives to be BLACK. CP's Management
disagreed.
Passenger equipment naturally changed at the same time. Previously CP's
standard passenger colours were the tuscan red (a nice burgundy colour) with
black roofs. Stainless steel cars (ie. the Canadian and RDCs) had tuscan name
boards. Some lightweight coaches, baggage cars and sleepers were also painted
silver with tuscan name bands to match the stainless steel cars (a discussion
a while back indicated that this sort of thing happened mostly in the mid
1960s. Definately NOT as early as 1955 when the Canadian's stainless
equipment was introduced.) With the introduction of the multimark scheme the
standard passenger scheme became silver with red letter bands, but with only
a small multimark at one end of the band, no "Canadian Pacific" or "CP Rail"
lettering across the length of the car.
Chris vanderHeide
Sarnia, ON.
