Well, I just saw a post made by Southern Plains Railfan on YT. CPKC has started to patch locomotives, and KCS 4150 seems to be the first to get patched. I wonder how fast CPKC is going to be patching these up and how long it’s going to before we see an official CPKC livery.[:^)]
Here’s that post if anyone is interested:
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxrCBV-wj4iqDtaiPVOHfw7G-9aUkNAvZh
That’s really sad… better to just leave as is than to pay someone to patch it like that…
To be honest, I’m surprised a stencil got used. I guessed for the first patch I would see it would just have been someone who spray painted on the reporting mark and eyeballed it.
Burlington Northern had stencils for patch renumbering from the start and I can remember seeing re-numbered power within a week or two of merger day.
Similar feeling to arrival of CP Rail, Multi Mark, Stripes and Action Red a
Half Century ago.
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_diesel/4242.htm
Thank You.
Maybe some internal graffiti? Almost certainly not official. KCS employees have pride of their loco paint job.
I do understand the necessity of “rebadging” the power for UMLER or whatever. The thing I can’t figure out is why this wasn’t done with cut-vinyl lettering that would be infinitely better legible, applied over a quickly-cleaned patch of cab side. It’s not as if the need to patch units comes as a surprise…
“You belong to “us” now…”
As someone pointed out, at least they used a stencil and didn’t do it freehand…
I just checked out the Canadian Railway Observation Facebook site and I see no mention whatsoever of CPKC starting to patch KCS or CP locomotives. There’s not even a CPKC painted loco at this point, which I find very strange. Figured they would have unveiled one of those on April 14th.
Can of Krylon and cardboard stencil is a great way to generate some instagram views.
A la the C&O for Progress ex-CSX SD70ACe a few years back. If TRAINS hadn’t stuck their nose into the situation and made some official inquiries, that gem would have lasted a lot longer.