Comments on: Both of Canadian Pacific’s GP30s, 5000 and 5001, wait the call to duty at the west end of the engine facility at Agincourt Yard. The units display different versions of the action red paint scheme. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Thu, 07 May 2026 18:15:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Jakob Mueller http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=41079#comment-39160 Jakob Mueller Thu, 23 Apr 2020 02:12:27 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CP-5001-5000-Agincourt-Yard-Toronto-ON-May-21-1979-Don-Jaworski-Copy.jpg#comment-39160 You got them both together? Nice! That was an experimental scheme on 5001 - only a small number of units had the 5" stripes and a small multimark. If you could see the rear of the unit, the 5" black and white stripes would only go as high on the long hood end as that multimark - above that would be plain Action Red. CP retained the large multimark for a while when they switched to the 8" stripes (as seen on 5000), and when they did start using a small multimark again, the 8" black-and-white stripes still extended the full height of the end of the long hood. You got them both together? Nice!

That was an experimental scheme on 5001 – only a small number of units had the 5″ stripes and a small multimark. If you could see the rear of the unit, the 5″ black and white stripes would only go as high on the long hood end as that multimark – above that would be plain Action Red.

CP retained the large multimark for a while when they switched to the 8″ stripes (as seen on 5000), and when they did start using a small multimark again, the 8″ black-and-white stripes still extended the full height of the end of the long hood.

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