Here’s a real life excuse to run some odd looking consists on our layouts!
I said to myself, “Self, that looks like it is down the street from your father’s retirement home in Bracebridge!”
And I was right!
“Pacific”, built in 1924 by Canadian Car & Foundry, was one of the observation cars on the 1939 Royal tour, then later served on the Museum train as 15157, later as CN business car 48, and appears to be currently owned by D.A.Walmsley Railway Equipment. I saw it sitting in the yard at Mimico a couple of weeks ago, while on a close-to-last-chance “Day Pass” ride on GO Transit.
Wayne
That would explain the DAWX reporting marks. It’s been owned since 1972 by the Higgins family of Mother Parker’s Tea and Coffee fame and is currently touring to raise funds for Alzheimer’s research as part of their 100th anniversary.
My favorite case of “Life Imitates Model Railroading” was the Motel in Mojave, California, which added Palm trees in front of their hotel after seeing them on Pelle Soeborg’s layout (there was an article in a local paper about his layout, if I recall correctly). Literally, Life imitating Model Railroading!
This is why I model the Ontario Northland Railway.[:D]
This is why I model the Ontario Northland Railway.[:D]
Speakign of life imitating model railroading, in a “Bull Session” column in an early 1963 MR there is an item about a newspaper or magazine article about a company that packaged automotive antifreeze. The story was that they processed so much, they got it by the railroad tank car load. Only a careful look at the picture showed the X2f couplers on the car - they used a photo of a MODEL tank car.
–Randy
That didn’t happen to be an April issue?
Nope, January 1963.
–Randy