CN’s nose decal about aboriginal people will adorn 200 new GE units. This one was in Wisconsin earlier this month.
Trains: Jim Wrinn
MONTREAL — Canadian National’s newest locomotives feature a logo celebrating the company’s ties to Aboriginal communities across its network. The first locomotives to feature the logo, a group of ES44ACs starting with No. 3806, were recently delivered to the railroad from GE Transportation.
The circular logo features the CN noodle along with symbols important to Canada’s Indigenous people. Spokesperson Patrick Waldron tells Trains News Wire that the shield was designed by students the University of Winnipeg Indigenous Studies program.
Waldron says 200 new GE locomotives will eventually wear the logo. In 2017, the railroad announced that it had ordered 200 ES44ACs from GE that will arrive over three years.
In 2013, CN adopted an Aboriginal Vision to help build mutually-beneficial relationships with Canada’s First Nation communities. CN operates within or adjacent to more than 100 different Aboriginal communities.
