crs1026
Superstar
This was making the rounds today on the interweb.
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Bordercollie
Senior Member
Will there locomotives be used to haul anything other than venture cars? Will there be no more HEP cars in the corridor?
What will be retired first, F40's or P42's? And to keep the F40's long haul routes is there any refubishmwent programs planned? Since they will expect to be in service for at least another 5 years.
Can't wait for corridor testing.
2transpo
New Member
I hope that isn't the finally livery because it is one of the worst liveries I have ever seen. Especially when you consider than ideally, a passenger train should look attractive. Imagine if we had put effort into the livery like Brightline.
The nose looks to be a different shape to what was shown in renderings. More bulbous and again, less attractive. Though I will reserve full judgement on the body styling until we get another angle.
Functionality is most important but we should take pride in our passenger trains. The first step in that is appearance. It isn't a good idea to go with a blackwash livery to make it look like a ww2 era austerity milk run train.
The nose looks to be a different shape to what was shown in renderings. More bulbous and again, less attractive. Though I will reserve full judgement on the body styling until we get another angle.
Functionality is most important but we should take pride in our passenger trains. The first step in that is appearance. It isn't a good idea to go with a blackwash livery to make it look like a ww2 era austerity milk run train.
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Bordercollie
Senior Member
It says pending decals. That means they haven't applied the stickers and the logo.
2transpo
New Member
Of course, but the colour scheme is just so bland. I can't imagine how a few decals will be able to fix this boring, uninspired colour scheme.
micheal_can
Senior Member
Could they rotate through the rest of the lines to have the best equipment out with spares strategically stored?
crs1026
Superstar
^Until we see it with paint, we don't know for a fact that it's VIA's - could be some other buyer's, but I'm trusting the source to know what they are looking at. Hard to tell from the photo. Could be a false alarm, but I figured it was worth passing along.
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lenaitch
Senior Member
It could be done completely in vinyl panels. The technology has come a long way and is no doubt cheaper and faster than a paint shop.
Darwinkgo
Active Member
IIRC Siemens urban transit has been delivering 100% wraps or decals on white for a while now in north america. Wouldn't be surprised to see the same on their other products.
roger1818
Senior Member
VIA has made no secret that the colour scheme will be like this (note all the black). I think it looks sharp, but I guess not everyone will agree.
Image courtesy VIA Rail
Most likely the black isn't paint but a conversion coating or maybe a powder coating. Either way, it would be far easier to have one colour for the entire unit and use a vinyl wrap to apply the livery.
Catenary
Active Member
OC Transpo gets all their Nova buses in all white now - the entire livery, which is not an insignificant amount, is vinyl. It's a lot quicker to fix repairs when you only have to deal with one paint colour and minimal masking.
JasonParis
Moderator
The "Rail Canada" addition to their logo has always been a design failure. While it is still used here, I'm glad to see it minimized.
Allandale25
Senior Member
And for anyone who may have missed it at the time:
Allandale25
Senior Member
Bordercollie
Senior Member
That heritage sleeper is rated for 110mph operations? Really?