In real life? Yes, I see them pretty often. Not usually more than one in a train, though, and generally in mixed freights, not solid grain trains. Not surprising, as this paint scheme was replaced by black with white/red Multimark 40 years ago.
is this paint scheme really still in use ??? guess cp rail should paint a few gevos in the old maroon/grey paint scheme. or one in every paint scheme they ever had. something like up's heritage locos.
They do have some locos in maroon/gray: the F-units assigned to the Royal Canadian Pacific (which aren't original CP locomotives) and a GP38-2 in the same service (a loco newer than the maroon/gray scheme).
Thanks, I wanted to know because I could get these from Intermountain, but I like to model my equiptment from 2005 up. That was very good information.
You see them but not too often (maybe 1 car out of 100... 200?) On an aside the Intermountain car is a different prototype than the Script cars. the number series used by IMRC is for a 3880 cu ft Covered hopper and the IMRC model is a 4550 cu ft model, a slight oversight but it is noticeable if you're into that sort of thing...
bfc1230, Check out the Canadian Freight car gallery, car number 387167 - http://freight.railfan.ca/cprail.html
