Monday, March 11, 2013

CN 6765 in August 1975

Here's a slide I've been meaning to scan for a while. It shows CN 6765 and CN 6633 in Toronto at Union Station at an unknown location on August 9, 1975. The photographer is unknown to me.
CN 6765 and CN 6633

I've been trying to nail down when CN 6765 was repainted into VIA colours, and also when it lost the CN on the nose and gained the VIA. I'm slowly narrowing it down.
  1. 1972/06/13 - CN black and white stripes with red nose
  2. 1976/07/24 - CN black and white stripes with red nose
  3. 1977/01/26 - VIA blue and yellow with red CN on yellow nose
  4. 1979/11/20 - VIA blue and yellow with red CN on yellow nose
  5. 1980/04/27 - VIA blue and yellow with red VIA on yellow nose
  6. 1981/07 - VIA blue and yellow with yellow nose
  7. 1988/10/16 - VIA blue and yellow with yellow nose
  8. 2001/08/30 - CN green and gold
  9. 2005 - CN green and gold
EDIT: Thanks for the location information!

EDIT2: I found a reference to VIA 6765 on Railpictures.ca where it says 6765 had a yellow pilot in November 1976. See the comment to this photo. There's also a reference here that says 6765 was the last FPA4 in green and gold, in 1965.

2 comments:

One Man Committee said...

At the very least I can help you with the location... that is just west of Toronto Union Station going over Simcoe Street!

Eric said...

Here's another CN locomotive in the same location, Steve, slightly different angle:

http://newviarailbook.blogspot.ca/2012/04/go-figure.html

Eric