Perfect Day For This
since the day this photo was taken marked the 81st Anniversary of the beginning of WWII for the US.
CP SD70ACU 6644 was sitting in the LIRC yard in Jeffersonville, IN after bringing a train of pot ash to the Port of Indiana.
It was painted in Royal Canadian Air Force Dark Green and Ocean Grey and feature a camouflage design similar to Britain’s Royal Air Force Spitfire aircraft during the Second World War. The vertical stripes on the long hood are “invasion stripes” applied to Allied aircraft prior to the D-Day landings. The locomotive road numbers use the Royal Canadian Air Force font found on aircraft of this era. CP chose to use No. 6644 to acknowledge the 75 anniversary of the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944.
Built in 1998 as CPR SD9043MAC 9160, rebuilt by Progress Rail in 2018.
Perfect Day For This
since the day this photo was taken marked the 81st Anniversary of the beginning of WWII for the US.
CP SD70ACU 6644 was sitting in the LIRC yard in Jeffersonville, IN after bringing a train of pot ash to the Port of Indiana.
It was painted in Royal Canadian Air Force Dark Green and Ocean Grey and feature a camouflage design similar to Britain’s Royal Air Force Spitfire aircraft during the Second World War. The vertical stripes on the long hood are “invasion stripes” applied to Allied aircraft prior to the D-Day landings. The locomotive road numbers use the Royal Canadian Air Force font found on aircraft of this era. CP chose to use No. 6644 to acknowledge the 75 anniversary of the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944.
Built in 1998 as CPR SD9043MAC 9160, rebuilt by Progress Rail in 2018.