[smallspy]

Don't bother looking too hard at the VIA side of the yard to see GO equipment there. Since the opening of the Whitby maintenance facility, Bombardier (now Alstom) is no longer leasing space from VIA in their shops.

CAD does still repaint cars over in their paint booth, but that doesn't happen all that often nowadays.

Dan

 

[SaugeenJunction]

$18.5 million contract to repaint trains (bi-levels and other equipment) awarded to Sygma Coating. Sounds like a lot of stuff is getting new paint.

 

[crs1026]

$18.5 million contract to repaint trains (bi-levels and other equipment) awarded to Sygma Coating. Sounds like a lot of stuff is getting new paint.

There was a tender call issued back in July.

The original rebranding of ML equipment began in what - 2016 ? Much of the old green and white is ready for repainting, and the commitment to not repaint faster than necessary has been honoured to a substantial degree. Maybe it’s time to let the green and white scheme, er, fade away.

Rail buffs love paint schemes … maybe it’s time someone should be making their pitch for a “heritage locomotive”. Blue and white on an MP54 ?

- Paul

 

[WB62]

There was a tender call issued back in July.

The original rebranding of ML equipment began in what - 2016 ? Much of the old green and white is ready for repainting, and the commitment to not repaint faster than necessary has been honoured to a substantial degree. Maybe it’s time to let the green and white scheme, er, fade away.

Rail buffs love paint schemes … maybe it’s time someone should be making their pitch for a “heritage locomotive”. Blue and white on an MP54 ?

- Paul

Most of the old coaches are already extremely faded; not a good look for GO, I'm looking forward to (hopefully) all the coaches getting repainted into the new livery. GO should not consider a heritage livery on an MP54 until all the MP40's are repainted, it's not necessary right now.

 

[SaugeenJunction]

Most of the old coaches are already extremely faded; not a good look for GO, I'm looking forward to (hopefully) all the coaches getting repainted into the new livery. GO should not consider a heritage livery on an MP54 until all the MP40's are repainted, it's not necessary right now.

Most of the old coaches are already extremely faded; not a good look for GO, I'm looking forward to (hopefully) all the coaches getting repainted into the new livery. GO should not consider a heritage livery on an MP54 until all the MP40's are repainted, it's not necessary right now.

Would love a heritage livery on one of the new diesels that will arrive over the next few years. Also, wonder if the F59s are getting the new livery?

 

[RU479]

Also, wonder if the F59s are getting the new livery?

One of the F59s, 560, recently got it's front logo repainted into the Metrolinx scheme.

Not saying that's an indication for anything but it is still something to note.

 

[WB62]

One of the F59s, 560, recently got it's front logo repainted into the Metrolinx scheme.

Not saying that's an indication for anything but it is still something to note.

Interesting, any photos?

 

[RU479]

Interesting, any photos?

Here's a photo from a while ago (it isn't mine)

Notice the front plaque has the logo in the MX dark green.

 

[WB62]

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Here's a photo from a while ago (it isn't mine)

Notice the front plaque has the logo in the MX dark green.

I'm inclined to believe you, but this looks edited; though at the same time it looks realistic enough to be true.

 

[TDE]

I feel they should to modify some elements with said livery on coaches.

• Change the color of the fleet number. Having white letters on a florescent lime green background is not a visually smart approach; it needs to be a contrast so you can actually see the decals.
• Bring back the fleet number's position in place of the current Metrolinx logo.
• Move said MX logo elsewhere. Only because exec's will want it on no matter what, I'm sure..
• Replace that logo to their updated version they decided to change at some point.

I mean, they probably won't, but..

 

[WB62]

I feel they should to modify some elements with said livery on coaches.

• Change the color of the fleet number. Having white letters on a florescent lime green background is not a visually smart approach; it needs to be a contrast so you can actually see the decals.
• Bring back the fleet number's position in place of the current Metrolinx logo.
• Move said MX logo elsewhere. Only because exec's will want it on no matter what, I'm sure..
• Replace that logo to their updated version they decided to change at some point.

I mean, they probably won't, but..

Why exactly do we need B end numbers? Black numbers were originally tested but they went with white, which makes me assume everyone found white to be just as easy to read.
I agree with updating the Metrolinx logo to the new one on repainted coaches going forward.

 

[lenaitch]

Other than railfans, does anybody outside of fleet operations really care about the visibility, placement or colour of fleet numbers? I get the need for an attractive livery, most organizations concern themselves with their 'corporate image' to varying degrees, but does anybody think ridership would change if the fleet was, say, all white?

 

[T3G]

but does anybody think ridership would change if the fleet was, say, all white?

This, right here, hits at the key part of the argument, I think.

I think that the obsession with branding is very much a product of the times we are living in, with the influencers and shortened attention spans and all that. From 1921 until the introduction of the CLRV livery, the TTC used a crimson and cream livery which was hardly original, it feels like a ton of operators used those colours at some point or other including British Rail in the form of their "blood and custard" coaching stock livery, and no one cared. British Rail hardly had a unified corporate identity, either - many locomotives wore a variety of paint schemes throughout their lives, be they steam or diesel. Wikipedia has a not extremely exhaustive selection of liveries that they experimented with over the years, and of course, it goes without saying that the whole fleet wasn't repainted every time a new idea came up, so the fleet could be extremely varied in colours at times. I guess back then, people focused on real issues.

British Rail corporate liveries - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

For a more recent example, decades following the fall of communism, Prague has had a multi coloured fleet according to the type of vehicle, with a corporate livery, as such, being introduced only in the last couple of years. It didn't seem to slow ridership up in any appreciable way. I shudder to think that there are people out there who decide whether to ride transit based on the colours the fleet is painted in - I really hope that's just a strawman that the influencers among us have concocted out of thin air!

T3 high floor:

T3 low floor:

T6A5:

Skoda 14 T:

Skoda 15 T (old livery):

Skoda 15 T (new livery):

Culminating in the new corporate livery, introduced in 2020.

https://flic.kr/p/2nRde1R

All photos are mine except for the last one, with credit going to Daniel Pánek on Flickr.

I have never been convinced of the need for a new GO livery, and the fact that they're pushing to repaint everything now whether it is in need of repainting or not feels like an extremely poor use of funds to me.

 

[Jayson9999]

I'm inclined to believe you, but this looks edited; though at the same time it looks realistic enough to be true.

It’s real and has been like that since the spring / summer atleast I believe

 

[gotransitboyhere]

Well since I’m not working at “GO” anymore is there any updates of 206 at willow brook?