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Caption: For some of us, it seems these ES44ACs have been around forever, yet it has only been 8 years. Stopped here at the Welland Yard office on their way to Toronto and almost overnight into revenue service are 6 new units, CP 8863, 8864, 8865, 8866, 8867 and 8862, painted up for the Vancouver Olympics of 2010; behind CP 8853 and 9727 up front. Most of us hardly had a chance to shoot this special paint before they went West, and then were painted to regular CP scheme after the Olympic hullyballoo was over.
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There’s at least one (if not more) still roaming around in a patched Olympic scheme.
Just one, Myles, and it has no lettering on it. Just the white band…might be 8876.
8864 (ex Olympic) was on 254 back on January 2nd through Welland.
that’s classic Michigan Central jointed rail in the foreground
I seem to remember seeing them a decent amount in Montreal for a little while in 2008, so I don’t think they all went out west.
The Olympics were mainstays on the transcon 100 series (Vancouver to Montreal, Vancouver to Toronto). They rarely, if ever ventured off this route….. going down the Galt, Hamilton and Windsor subs for example.
Ah, that makes sense. Here’s a shot I took of CP 8860 in the Lachine IMS yard in February 2009.
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=11426
There are a few still in that Olympics scheme, at least they make GEVOs foamable!