Hospital Train on the CP Rail M & M Sub.

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After Eric Gagnon of Trackside Treasure posted an interesting article about a 1992 CP Rail “hospital train”–a movement of old locomotives and rolling stock in poor condition from Montreal to western Canada–I was inspired to make my own hospital train on the CP Rail M & M Sub.

I assembled a couple of old units, a passenger car, some vans and odds and ends on their way to repair, museums or the scrapper. It makes for an interesting move across the layout–something different from the usual line-up of freight trains.

You can read about it, and find a link to Eric’s original post, at
http://cprailmmsub.blogspot.ca/2013/03/hospital-train-on-manitoba-minnesota-sub.\
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Anyone else model a hospital train?

John Longhurst, Winnipeg

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we used to make such moves after cleaning up a derailment. the cars that were the “walking wounded” would be moved on their own wheels. often on replacement trucks supplied by the car department wrecking outfit. we strung air hoses along the sided of the cars to get some semblance of a working air brake system, bypassing the ones that had their train line broken or compromised to the extent that a field repair was not practical…

Charlie