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One of the OSR Guelph Division engineers Manley Johnson preferred Alco/MLW's. He also preferred this pair. Pictured is Job 2 heading North in the early afternoon, passing a farm located between Corhwin and Arkell on the Guelph Junction Railway. This day the boys will run straight to the CN interchange and north end of Guelph, by the time they arrive in the north end of town, the sun would come out. I had missed the BC Rail era - didn't make it out west before they sold to CN. What BC Rail scheme do you guys enjoy the most? What I find the most striking is the Erie Lackawanna did this scheme first. Was it a 1776-1976 thing or something else?
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Caption: One of the OSR Guelph Division engineers Manley Johnson preferred Alco/MLW's. He also preferred this pair. Pictured is Job 2 heading North in the early afternoon, passing a farm located between Corhwin and Arkell on the Guelph Junction Railway. This day the boys will run straight to the CN interchange and north end of Guelph, by the time they arrive in the north end of town, the sun would come out.

I had missed the BC Rail era - didn't make it out west before they sold to CN. What BC Rail scheme do you guys enjoy the most? What I find the most striking is the Erie Lackawanna did this scheme first. Was it a 1776-1976 thing or something else?

Photographer:
Stephen C. Host [1590] (more) (contact)
Date: 12/17/2019 (search)
Railway: Ontario Southland (search)
Reporting Marks: OSRX 647, 644 (search)
Train Symbol: Job 2 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Goderich Subdivision (search)
City/Town: Guelph (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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6 Comments
  1. MrDan
    May 13, 2026 at 11:28 am

    That EL livery was a bicentennial paint job applied to about two SD45 types IIRC. At least one made it to Conrail patched as a CR 66xx in those colours.

  2. Stephen C. Host
    May 13, 2026 at 3:38 pm

    So one could say the BCOL copied it??? I know the BC flag are these colours.. but it’s very close

  3. MrDan
    May 14, 2026 at 1:39 am

    It looks very similar, although BC Rail put stripes on the front of theirs (maybe they copied that from CP Rail).

    The units in question were EL SD45 3632 and SDP45 3638.

  4. Ian Malenfant-Picard
    May 15, 2026 at 1:21 pm

    Great shot Stephen! My favourite BC Rail livery would be either the original green livery or the ”Hockey stick” livery.

  5. Stephen C. Host
    May 18, 2026 at 8:10 pm

    John’s recent post of the PGE livery has me excited though :)

  6. Dave Brook
    May 24, 2026 at 9:50 am

    BC Rail green might be the best scheme ever applied in Canada…..or anywhere.
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