GMD Recollections - A Whiter Shade of Pale

Demonstrator unit GM 91 is resting on the shop track at CP Quebec St. in London, Ontario on July 31, 1998.

By Peter Mumby.

GMD/EMD had a number of sharp-looking demonstrator paint schemes.  This was not one of them.  Built in July of 1998, this SD90 demonstrator was painted in what was at best a stealth scheme.  It was almost as if company officials had a premonition that this model would not be well received, and provided it with the opportunity to fade into the background.