Caption: The Turd on 85: VIA Rail F40PH-2D 6414 leads the normal two stainless steel Budd HEP coaches on train #85 from Toronto to Sarnia, departing downtown Brampton after making its afternoon station stop at 11:29am and about to "slam the diamond" with the OBRY to the west. A classic consist for many years (and one that RDC's could have handled), sometimes traffic would warrant a third Budd coach thrown in for good measure.

For those who didn't have the pleasure of living through VIA's wrap era, a number of colourful wrapped F40's made otherwise mundane VIA consists just a bit more exciting trackside. VIA 6414 was wrapped for Lotto Quebec, and was nicknamed "The Turd" because of it's predominately brown livery (that could be noted at a distance coming down the track instead of the yellow nose of a regular F40). Equipment cycling meant the same consist could stay on the same run for week or two (85 was one of six Toronto-Sarnia corridor trains that took the Halton Sub, running as 85 from Toronto-Sarnia in the afternoon and returning in the evening as 88), hence if The Big Brown Turd was on 85 you knew to avoid it all week, or shoot it, depending on preference (same with Telus-wrapped "Green Booger" 6429.

Another common annoyance to some trackside was the front MU cover being left open, or in the "flap up" position (the rebuilds eliminated the nose MU plug, and the open flap was never an issue again).