Thought it would be nice to have a yarn bout CP, any pic, any stories, news, ect. Tell us what section of the line you model, or if it’s freelance, the more the merrier![:D]
Danny
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Reporting for duty, sir!
I model a CP branch, I am trying to make it look like the mainline, but it resembles the Kettle Valley line more than anything else. All red and deserty. I have 21 engines, of which 19 are CP.
Wow, right up my ally!
I happen to be modeling a freelance aspect of that based in the US Northeast.
Gordon
I operate two Dominion and Atlantic (DAR) RDC’s on the M.E.S.S. as well as an IHC CP Pacific.
Forgot to add, any good links to clubs, private layouts, or prototype sites, post them please!
http://stewart.railfan.net/rail/TRAINS.htm
http://www.caorm.org/Pages/member-web.html
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/othen/rrpics.htm watch for the sound on this one!
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?id=CP
http://members.shaw.ca/longhurst4/page12.html
http://cpr.railfan.net/
http://www.the-gauge.com/forumdisplay.php?s=1addf3cb2ac2de2a22229fe1ed180158&daysprune=&f=21
My small, private mining and industrial railroad interchanges with CP (and Conrail) in eastern Pennsylvania.
Big, gleaming, modern red CP diesels make for a nice contrast to the industrial railroads old, dirty, beat up first generation models.
Jim
not fair, I only have 4, never mind, haven’t yet found where mine is located…somewhere in Alberta or BC, since I have snow, 2 nice mountains, and a +3% grade, I haven’t bothered measuring it, since the train goes up it, and I know that one day, I’ll have to redo that section…one day… .
Hi, there.
I’m modelling the C.P. mainline (Keith Yard) about 9 miles west of Calgary, not quite full length as you can imagine, I’ve got 29ft x 10ft approx as it is today or 5 years either side of the millenium. Using Digitrax and Soundtraxx decoders .Living in U.K. can have its drawbacks , can,t just nip down the road and take photos but I manage O.K. I have 30 odd locos not all C.P. and would love to get hold of a H1b Hudson as it is preserved.
I hope return to Calgary in 2006 , finances permitting!!! CPPedler
Jim, good to see that you are’t sticking with just one RR.
I myself have an interchange with Conrail & another with the MEC in 2 separate locations on my layout.
The Conrail one isn’t very large, 2 tracks, maybe 3 cars each max due to space constraints but I think it’ll work for what I need.
Anyone else running passenger trains?
I have ones from CPR, VIA, D&H & Amtrak.
Gordon
This site is highly recommended for photos and info on contemporary CP west of Calgary:
http://www.mountainrailway.com/
My family and I rode the Rocky Mountaineer cruise train from Vancouver to Banff via Kamloops in August 2004. Weather was excellent (except for snow at the east portal of Connaught Tunnel and the scenery and engineering is truly epic. Dispatching was superb and two ex-CN GP40-2W’s can really roll a train. High marks to the CP for arranging to have a local black bear visit during the crew change at Field, BC…
I model primarily the D&H in Northeast PA. However, CP power shows up frequently.
Nick
I’ve dabbled in CP, this is probably my most recent attempt:
(click on photo to enlarge)
I love the CP and all the railroads they have absorbed over the years. They will be featured prominently on my layout, as most of the industrial switching is on their track.
My layout is strongly prototype based, and as such I tend to wander the area I’m modeling with camera in hand.
Could you stand a freelanced layout of Sentinel, a TH&B Hudson pulling borrowed CPR Harriman cars, and a WP&Y Mike pulling a couple of Overtons (my last name, natch)?
-Crandell
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Could you stand a freelanced layout of Sentinel, a TH&B Hudson pulling borrowed CPR Harriman cars, and a WP&Y Mike pulling a couple of Overtons (my last name, natch)?
-Crandell
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Sure!!!
There was no mention of the OTHER Canadian RR so it’s ok. [:D]
Gordon
Elliot,
Great shots, especially of 2816.
I did notice a lot of Multimarks in pictures of your layout.
I wasn’t aware that CP was a main focus in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.
Gordon
Gordon
My Grizzly Northern Railway (the GNR) is a CPR subsidiary, set in the mid 1940’s. The GNR mainline runs from Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, to Kamloops, British Columbia via Grizzly, British Columbia.
A brief history of the GNR was published in the 1 July 1938 Dominion Day edition of “The Caribou News and Chronicle”. Send an E-mail request if you are interested in reading a transcript of the article.
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Thanks Gordon.
The CP presence in the Twin Cities is major, owing to thier absorbtion of the Soo, which had previously taken over the Milwaukee. The Amtrak Empire Builder uses the old Milwaukee main, from Chicago to St Paul, then switches to the BNSF and continues on to Seattle. The CP main heads to Winnipeg from here.
The Twin Cities are a gerat interchange point for 4 of the 7 class ones. BNSF, CP, UP and even CN all come to town. Beside the mainline action, that interchange is a big part of what I’m modeling. CP, BNSF, UP and the Minnesota Commercial will all have yard space on the layout, and access to staging. I’m really trying to represent all aspects of real railroading in my little section of the world.
CN barely comes into play. They only recently came to town when they bought up the Wisconsin Central. The really funny part of that is, the Soo which had always been a CP holding, spun off their tracks to form the new WC, when they aquired the Milwaukee. The irony is, tracks that were once under the control of CP, have in a slightly roundabout way, found their way into the hands of CN. Go figure.[swg]
I have a few more:
Bob Boudreau
I run 3 AC4400CW’s sometimes on my layout and at train shows and I have 1 CP switcher that gets a little action sometimes. Gordon, I sometimes run a couple GO trains and a VIA once in awhile.