Re: [CBQ] Chicago Metra now has a locomotive inspired by the CB&Q

["Douglas Hosler" <dehosler@frontier.com>]

Whether or not we like the particular recreation, I do like having the Q represented in Chicago’s Metra Service.  Issues of First and Fastest, the journal of the Shore Line Interurban Historical Society, have featured the other Metra Heritage schemes that have so far appeared.  I am happy for a Q Heritage scheme to join them.  

And others have pointed out it is certainly an art to “transmogrify” the appearance of earlier engines of one type into the appearance of engines of another type.  We have a great example of that process in Burlington Bulletin #57 with John Schulz’s excellent “An E5 Homage.”  On page 15 Schulz illustrates Electro-Motive's attempt to satisfy the Q with the design of an “automotive (style) front-end” belonging to E6’s that might still reflect the appearance of the Q’s shovelnose Zephyrs.   

On October 4, 2016 at 11:52:44 AM, norm1garand via Groups.Io (norm1garand=yahoo.com@groups.io) wrote:

I like it!!!  Sure, it’s not perfect, but it sure beats the heck out of the CRIP and MILW MP36s!!!  Can you imagine one done up like a BN E9!  With the green and white stripes!

Norman Fenske 

On Friday, October 4, 2019, 9:09:27 AM CDT, Erik Spoonmore <Spoony81@att.net> wrote:

Chicago Metra has released a locomotive painted to resemble the CB&Q. This follows other units that were painted to honor the Rock Island and Milwaukee Road

Photos courtesy of the Metra Facebook page

Erik Spoonmore

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