Comments on: 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?

By: Dave Brook

Dave Brook — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:50:55 +0000

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

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:10:30 +0000

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

By: Ian Malenfant-Picard

Ian Malenfant-Picard — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:21:07 +0000

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

By: MrDan

MrDan — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:39:19 +0000

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.

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:38:06 +0000

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

By: MrDan

MrDan — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:28:08 +0000

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.