Railpictures.ca - A.W.Mooney Photo: 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. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

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.

Caption: 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.

Photographer:	A.W.Mooney [2136] (more) (contact)
Date:	06/20/1979 (search)
Railway:	Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks:	CN 6758 (search)
Train Symbol:	unknown (search)
Subdivision/SNS:	Bayview Jct (search)
City/Town:	Bayview Junction (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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3 Comments

terry.oshell

April 11, 2023 at 6:51 pm

A great photo.
Jakob Mueller

April 11, 2023 at 9:08 pm

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.
awmooney

April 12, 2023 at 6:54 am

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.

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