Your right I wonder if LocoPhotos is blocking links now! Try going to Locophotos.com and look for CN #9626 while I see if I can sort this out! Those guys are ruining my joke![censored]
Also, the CN symbol on the nose is way too low …and the numbering/lettering font is incorrect. It seems the American shops just can’t do CN units correctly. Let’s get the work done back in Montreal or Edmonton.
“Am I missing something here? The pictures you are talking about are of a real train, not some model, right?”
Tony, it took me a while but I think, and mind you this is just spectulation, what Boomer Red is trying to say is that this CN prototype locomotive was painted somewhere in the United States and it was painted incorrectly. I believe, and again this is just spectulation, what Boomer Red is doing is making fun of US model manufacturers who can’t or won’t do accurate models of Canadian prototypes by saying, “Hey, even the prototype US painters can’t get it right.” It seems to be some kind of Canadian, US thing. Ha, Ha. But of course we all know that the model manufacturers don’t get half the models of US prototypes right, so there’s really no point.
It looks like this joke has taken a nosedive but oh well. I was describing the unit in question like it was a model only to poke fun. After working so hard to get the above mentioned details correct on my own models I thought it a little odd to see a prototype in new paint look the way this one does. I guess if it was a gray and yellow unit with UNION PACIFIC on the sides in blue lettering that maybe people would find it a bit funnier? Oh well I agree that all CN units should be sent North to be painted correctly thus eliminating any further confusion.[:-^]
Boomer Red, I think that what you have observed is not so much a joke, but the fact that there is a prototype for just about anything and everything, if we look long enough and hard enough. Anyway, where’s the photo of the locomotive you’ve put so much into? I think that’s what everyone would really like to see, not something The Guess Who would sing about.
Hopefully I will be able to post some pictures soon but I need a camera first. I need to shop around and find a digital one that will focus small enough for models but doesn’t cost a small fortune.
Ah, but speaking of confusion, what’s to say that they haven’t been painting them incorrectly up North all this time and that Woodcrest is finally getting them done right? [(-D]