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This was a morning I had gone out for whatever, maybe groceries, I dunno; when I saw a headlight down the line as I was crossing the tracks. Anyone who railfans Niagara knows that morning shots of westbounds are next to impossible as you end up shooting right into the sun. So I went down a country road and decided I might shoot this if it had anything good. I was really surprised at the leader........one of the four (8100-8103) EMD SD70ACe demonstrators that came to CN in January 2014, so this was shot not long after they arrived. Certainly is a striking paint job. A number of fans had a lot of luck photographing these before they got painted into standard CN, but I wasn't one of them. This was the best I could do.
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Caption: This was a morning I had gone out for whatever, maybe groceries, I dunno; when I saw a headlight down the line as I was crossing the tracks. Anyone who railfans Niagara knows that morning shots of westbounds are next to impossible as you end up shooting right into the sun. So I went down a country road and decided I might shoot this if it had anything good. I was really surprised at the leader........one of the four (8100-8103) EMD SD70ACe demonstrators that came to CN in January 2014, so this was shot not long after they arrived. Certainly is a striking paint job. A number of fans had a lot of luck photographing these before they got painted into standard CN, but I wasn't one of them. This was the best I could do.

Photographer:
A.W.Mooney [2138] (more) (contact)
Date: 01/26/2014 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 8101 (search)
Train Symbol: #422 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: CN Grimsby Sub. (search)
City/Town: Beamsville (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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5 Comments
  1. Kevin Flood
    February 13, 2024 at 4:43 pm

    Here’s my take back in Aug. 2015. This was the only time I caught one of these in this paint scheme.

    https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=20091

  2. terry.oshell
    February 13, 2024 at 6:23 pm

    I like that view. Good job.

  3. DoctaPinklaces
    February 14, 2024 at 10:55 pm

    I remember this one. I wanted to skip class because of it, but thought better of myself. Good thing I went cause it left quite the impact on me. 2+2=6 right?

  4. awmooney
    February 15, 2024 at 7:55 am

    Hahahaha…don’t worry about it. Most of us railfans are not “all there” anyway, are we?

  5. Stephen C. Host
    February 15, 2024 at 2:32 pm

    These didn’t last long in this ‘paint’ on CN. I only got them a couple times myself!
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