CALGARY, Alberta — Perhaps the creativity-challenged top brass at the recently CPKS railroad should have consulted industrial designer Cesar Vargara for his thoughts before laying five prosaic if not dull options for delivery in an employee contest. On his own Vergara, a noted railroad design artist, has come up with fresh possibilities. He proposesd three iterations keyed to the colors of the Canada, Mexico and U.S. Mexico flags – the nations that CPKC connects. He has merged sets of rails criss-crossing horizontally and vertically to capture CPKC’s historic new role as the first carrier to serve all three major North American countries coast to coast
Flag-keyed locomotives. Even mix and matched, Vergara’s engines would have inclusive coherence. There also are traces of Canadian Pacific’s historic red and Kansas City Southern’s historic yellow.
Vergara. A Swedish-trained native of Mexico. On the in-house Amtrak design team until 1999, when he left to create his own design studio that specializes in railroad livery. Nothing stodgy in his CPKC thoughts.