Certainly not in one weekend! But there was program in the early part of 1969
to get all stainless steel cars (excepting RDCs) repainted as quickly as
possible so The Canadian would not be a mixture of old and new. I don't recall
seeing any mixed consists in photos or in the flesh (and The Canadian went past
my high school every afternoon) so the job must have been done pretty quickly.
The amount of painting required was quite limited, involving changing the
letterboard, removing paint from the belt rail and relettering the car names
and numbers. The beaver crests were pulled off at the same time.
The 2200 series coaches weren't given the same treatment. Some cars had
recently been painted silver with tuscan stripes and many if not all of these
retained this appearance. A number of coaches were painted silver with an
Action red stripe. Both of these as well as all-tuscan coaches were used on The
Canadian as needed until VIA if not beyond.
Don Thomas
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From: Paul Trudel <gumpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, November 24, 2011 7:58 pm
Subject: Re: [cpsig] Re: action red colour scheme
To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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Envoyé avec mon iPad.
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On 2011-11-24 22:23:23 +0000 cv_acr <cv_acr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
action red and
Can anyone tell me when diesels stared to be repainted in
silver and redPacman logo? Also when did passenger stock go from red to
iconic video gamestripe?
The MultiMark (can we please stop calling it Pacman? The
was not invented until 12 years later) was introduced as CP'scorporate logo
in late fall of 1968. Different colours distinguished CP Rail,CP Air, CP
Ships, CP Hotels, CP Express, etc. They all used the multimarkand italicized
lettering.Multi-mark painted
So call it ~1969 that you'd realistically start seeing any
equipment in any sort of numbers.Management
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
disagreed.Previously CP's
Passenger equipment naturally changed at the same time.
standard passenger colours were the tuscan red (a niceburgundy colour) with
black roofs. Stainless steel cars (ie. the Canadian and RDCs)had tuscan name
boards. Some lightweight coaches, baggage cars and sleeperswere also painted
silver with tuscan name bands to match the stainless steelcars (a discussion
a while back indicated that this sort of thing happened mostlyin the mid
1960s. Definately NOT as early as 1955 when the Canadian'sstainless
equipment was introduced.) With the introduction of themultimark scheme the
standard passenger scheme became silver with red letter bands,but with only
a small multimark at one end of the band, no "CanadianPacific" or "CP Rail"
lettering across the length of the car.
Chris vanderHeide
Sarnia, ON.
