Manie Eastern F40s

Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:17 pm

Maine Eastern (former MEC Rockland Branch) appears to be serious about starting excursion service. Here are their two F40s

http://www.jalexlang.com/eric/040716/me265_291a.jpg
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Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:23 pm

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=69642
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Johnny Winkler · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2004 6:19 pm

This Maine Eastern paint scheme looks almost exactly like what EMD's styling department designed for the first E unit diesels for the Southern Railway in 1939.However Southern had the white paint simplified to the more familar band and stripe before the first locomotive was built.

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Gerald W. Kopiasz · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:45 pm

Can someone give some details regarding this operation?

Gerald W. Kopiasz

> This Maine Eastern paint scheme looks almost
> exactly like what EMD's styling department
> designed for the first E unit diesels for
> the Southern Railway in 1939.However
> Southern had the white paint simplified to
> the more familar band and stripe before the
> first locomotive was built.

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