When VIA Rail Canada first began to purchase the EMD F40PH for its passenger train fleet, the units uniformly wore the standard VIA livery of gray, gold and blue. From the 1990s on, many of its F40s have been branded in a variety of schemes.

These include Operation Lifesaver Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Home Hardware, Telus, Pepsi and Loto Quebec. At least one has worn Budweiser colors for Super Bowl XL, and another was done up in a unique "Spiderman" scheme to promote the "Spiderman 2" movie.

Here's #6453 in less flashy dress, leading a Toronto-Montreal corridor train at Kingston, Ont. Incidentally, VIA's F40PH fleet is numbered in the same series (6400) as a class of earlier express passenger locomotives on the CN, the U-4 "Confederation" streamlined 4-8-4s.

Photographed by Thomas McCann, April, 1992.
Added to the photo archive by Thomas McCann, March 14, 2007.
Railroad: VIA.

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