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Pat wrote:I drove by it today and I didn't see any blasting or painting going on.

Thought her hull was painted within the past two years, so I can't believe they'd be painting her.

American Mariner had been painted a few years back, not the Boland, so she may indeed be getting paint.

They have tarps around the back half of the ship like they always do when their sandblasting and painting. I don’t think it’s a wind break for working on the rear of the ship because the tarps cover to about the half way mark of the ship

Pat wrote:I drove by it today and I didn't see any blasting or painting going on.

Thought her hull was painted within the past two years, so I can't believe they'd be painting her.

I drove by it today and I didn't see any blasting or painting going on.

The announcement made no mention of the merging of the ASC fleet with GRN/LLT. So I read that as meaning they will be operated as separate entities for now. Therefore the John J. Boland can be expected to still wear ASC colours.

I don't know if the proposed Santa Fe/Southern Pacific merger is the best analogy. I certainly remember it. The ICC was infamous for taking years before giving approval to railroad mergers - most times they were nixed. Witness the proposed merger of Union Pacific with Rock Island. The hearings took 10-years, and by the time it was approved, Union Pacific walked away from the merger because most of Rock Island's tracks, locomotives and railcars were in horrible condition. (By the late '70s you were lucky if the train stayed on the tracks for more than a few miles).

Anyone railfans remember the SPSF "Kodachrome" paint scheme? In the 1980's Southern Pacific Transportation Company and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway voted to merge. They had over 400 locomotives painted in their new unified paint scheme when the Interstate Commerce Commission rejected the merger. Of course that was back when regulatory approvals took years, not months. But still, their marketing people didn't let a little detail like regulatory approval hold them up from changing their look.


http://espee.railfan.net/picindex/kodac ... rs_sp.html

Seeing as how the Rand deal is still waiting on regulatory approval, I’d have to say ASC colors. People seem to be missing that this deal has only been announced, nothing has been approved yet...

I see they are sandblasting and painting the Boland currently at Fraser shipyard. Will be interesting to see if she remains in the asc colors or comes out of drydock in rand colors.