On this day last year, I was traveling with Chris Guss, photographing Canadian National’s Wisconsin Central line.
I made this view of a CN local freight at Ackerville, Wisconsin using my old Lumix LX7. You can see my shadow in the foreground.
Tracking the Light Posts Every Day!
From the look of these locomotives, they hadn’t been painted since the 1980s!
So, in 2018 CN were still employing the same detergent for cleaning locos that the Western Region of British Railways used in the 1970s/80s!! At that time the WR’s fleet of diesel-hydraulic locos suffered badly from fading paint-work as the detergent took its toll on the loco liveries. Eventually a new formula was tried and the paint stayed on the locos!
What goes around comes around………