CPR 4-6-2 G5 Ever Done in HO Brass?

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I have a 1st edition, terribly outdated, of the Brown Book of Brass Locomotives, circa early 1980s. It does not answer my following question, which I’ll post herewith to the MR message board community:

Was a Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 class G5 steam locomotive (1200-class) ever produced in HO scale as a brass model? If so, what year and what maker produced it?

Also, were any HO-scale models of a CPR “Rocky Mountain”-type open observation car ever produced as kits?

If anybody can answer these questions, I’m all ears! Thank you.

K.R. Bell

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The only ones I’ve heard of were run by Vans Hobbies in the mid-1980s. They tend to be in the $1,000 area when they turn up.

A quick run through the Brass Guide doesn’t turn up any mention of the Rocky Mountain-type open observation car.

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Van Hobbies for the G5.

The haystack cars have been made in brass in the enclosed and non-enclosed versions.

Is someone trying to model the Trans-Canada limited?

David B

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Actually, I’m modeling my own fictitious short line/tourist road based on George Hart’s “Rail Tours” operation that ran on the Ma & Pa in the 1960s. He used ex-CPR 4-6-2 No. 1286, an ex-CPR Rocky Mountain obsv open-air, and several ex-Reading Co. coaches on weekends.

Do you know who manufactured the brass CPR Obsv cars, and when they were released?

~K.R. Bell

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Don’t know about the G5 but as far as the mountain observations go, I can offer this:

Totem Models did a mid-era version in brass. The originals were built 1923-1928, numbered 7900-7915 according to the info sheet provided with mine.

There was an earlier type the CPR built, I believe it was offered as a kit by Westwood many years ago. They are hard to find, and a challenge to build if my CPR business car by them is any indication.

And there was the last version. No kit or completed model has been offered of this that I know of, but an original is still around, owned by the West Coast Railway Association and rented/leased to various organizations at times. More info on it is here: http://www.wcra.org/collection/CPR598.htm. This may be a simple kit bash, as the CPR did, from an existing passenger car.

Hope this helps a bit.

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The first G-5 was built in 1944, 102 G-5’s were built between 1944 and 1948. The term ''PACIFIC" was coined shortly after the turn of the century when they were produced for use in New Zealand; from this first application came the type name ‘‘Pacific’’