RE: (erielack) Algoma Central

["Tupaczewski, Paul R \(Paul\)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>]

Dale Madison wrote:

> The Algoma Central up until the 1990's used a paint scheme 
> that was very 
> very close to EL GMY.  Almost exact to me.    Memory fails me 
> but they - I 
> think - always used passenger Geeps on their trains.  When 
> the Wisconsin Central bought the Algoma Central in the mid 
> 1990's, the WC bought some CN FP9A's and repainted them in 
> modified historic AC colours.

What I thought was really neat is that they're using the original DL&W
variant of the GMY paint scheme that has the maroon "curved tips", much
like Lackawanna's H24-66s.  (the EL simplified the scheme with a hard
stop at the yellow nose)

	- Paul

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