Comments on: With 6758 (pictured) and 6759 the only two MLW FPA-2u that were part of the VIA fleet, I made sure to grab a photo if I knew one was close by. In this shot I am on the ‘water’ side of the CN Oakville sub (a no-no these days) shooting the passenger eastbound as it comes off the Dundas sub. Interesting to note the “CN”on the nose had been recently painted out. I’m now wondering if anyone knows when this unit received its VIA makeover, and whether “CN” or “VIA” was applied to the nose. Second unit I recorded as CN 6862. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:08:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=51654#comment-66183 Stephen C. Host Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:21:33 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CN-6758-345-edited1.jpg#comment-66183 I was inside this unit last month :) With the President himself. What a neat operation. I was inside this unit last month :) With the President himself. What a neat operation.

]]> By: awmooney http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=51654#comment-56753 awmooney Wed, 12 Apr 2023 10:54:37 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CN-6758-345-edited1.jpg#comment-56753 Thanks, Jakob: That is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. I did forget to mention it was on the NYLE. The conversion of CNs to VIAs and the time frame of such has always puzzled me. Some made the complete change to VIA colours and the name on the nose....yet some didn't. Thanks, Jakob: That is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. I did forget to mention it was on the NYLE.
The conversion of CNs to VIAs and the time frame of such has always puzzled me. Some made the complete change to VIA colours and the name on the nose….yet some didn’t.

]]> By: Jakob Mueller http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=51654#comment-56751 Jakob Mueller Wed, 12 Apr 2023 01:08:56 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CN-6758-345-edited1.jpg#comment-56751 The "wiped nose" at this stage started happening as VIA, now a separate crown corporation from CN, started clarifying its ownership over the motive power it had fully purchased. Units wearing that early "VIA-CN" version of the scheme had the CN noodle swapped out for a VIA, and this happened to units waiting for a full repaint. This was one of the earliest such units to have the noodles removed. Another more subtle change was the addition of a little "VIA" beside the road numbers on the side. I don't have exact dates, but 6758 was wearing the full VIA scheme by October 1979, including a red VIA nose logo. It was in that paint, with the logo, until at least March of 1986. By July of 1986, it had received a blue VIA nose logo - one of only two units to get this (the other was 6775). It had that until at least 1988, and may have retired with it. (I haven't seen a picture of it at the time of sale.) The unit still exists, and isn't all that far away - it's on the New York & Lake Erie Railroad, in Gowanda NY (south of Buffalo), with 6764. The “wiped nose” at this stage started happening as VIA, now a separate crown corporation from CN, started clarifying its ownership over the motive power it had fully purchased. Units wearing that early “VIA-CN” version of the scheme had the CN noodle swapped out for a VIA, and this happened to units waiting for a full repaint. This was one of the earliest such units to have the noodles removed. Another more subtle change was the addition of a little “VIA” beside the road numbers on the side.

I don’t have exact dates, but 6758 was wearing the full VIA scheme by October 1979, including a red VIA nose logo. It was in that paint, with the logo, until at least March of 1986.

By July of 1986, it had received a blue VIA nose logo – one of only two units to get this (the other was 6775). It had that until at least 1988, and may have retired with it. (I haven’t seen a picture of it at the time of sale.)

The unit still exists, and isn’t all that far away – it’s on the New York & Lake Erie Railroad, in Gowanda NY (south of Buffalo), with 6764.

]]> By: terry.oshell http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=51654#comment-56749 terry.oshell Tue, 11 Apr 2023 22:51:48 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CN-6758-345-edited1.jpg#comment-56749 A great photo. A great photo.

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