New sighting

[hi-f]

I saw two units go by today on a container train thru Bellefontaine, Ohio, they were freshly painted in U.P. colors, but with "CEFX" below the cab windows and huge engine numbers. Who owns these?

 

[SOO < 1987 < WC]

CEFX is a leasing company(CIT Finance) so those engines might have used to belong to UP, but now are being leased by them or a different company.

 

[railohio]

They are former Union Pacific units that were purchased by CIT for their lease fleet. They just haven't gotten around to relettering them yet.

 

[railohio]

After a few minutes I realized I had seen these units before. Here's a shot of two of them in Deshler. If you think these look bad, there are some even more ugly ones running around on the I&O.

 

[Russ Bellinis]

Originally posted by Brian Schmidt
They are former Union Pacific units that were purchased by CIT for their lease fleet. They just haven't gotten around to relettering them yet.

I'm not sure they will be repainted. U. P. seems to be selling engines to leasing companies and then leasing them back. I don't remember the company or its reporting marks now, but there is a gp38 being used in switching in City of Industry here in So Cal that is marked just like those cefx units, but the U.P. paint is brand new.

 

[Hoghead]

We have had a few of those out my way in service. It is amazing how well they polish up once they are washed by the new owners.