I have several of the freight cars bought used here in Alyth Yard country. The latest acquisition is very nice silver express through baggage boxcar with Tuscan red (maroon) block lettering. C.P. 4904.
Who were these guys?
Reason I ask is after fitting the much discussed Intermountain wheels tgis particular car rolls with zero resistance. You can laugh but yesterday I ran my Genesis GP III up to it super slow and it failed to couple. When I backed the Geep away the car followed it (at a respectful distance) as if drawn by a magnet (it does have magnetic couplers !!!).
Before the debate begins again about IM wheels, yes, my mini level establishes that this section of track slopes ever so gently…
No idea whatsoever, but the cars in David’s link look very similar to the old Front Range or McKean boxcars, except, of course, for the Canadian roadnames.
I had quite a few of those older cars, most of them lettered for Canadian roads using C-D-S dry transfers.
Wayne
Yes, I also have the green CP multimark boxcar NIB, the third road numberL fifth one down. Thanks. I wonder what happened to them?
Looking down that list I have a bunch of these cars but several came to me as NIB Trueline Trains Gold Edition cars.
The detail is pretty good. On one the set of wheels has cast in Dofasco which is the Canadian foundry presumably making the prototype wheels. Another boxcar has the AAR casting words on the dish of the wheels but that’s IM. Not sure which brand has which lettering. I swapped out the wheels on the express baggage car with IM wheels without looking for detail on the stock wheels supplied.
Trains Canada was a Calgary company that produced box cars. I can’t find a current website for them so I’m guessing that they are out of business. There is an address and phone number listed on the box.
3801 - 16th Street S.E., Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2G 4W5
(403) 265-3351.
I tried the phone # but all I got was a dead line.
I phoned them several years ago to ask about buying direct. I got a very curt answer saying that they only sold to dealers and that I had no business phoning his number (which was printed right on the box)! Strange.
I have two of their CPR movable bulkhead cars. The details are crisp. The grabs are molded on but the ladders have been separately applied. They have plastic magnetic couplers. The wheels are plastic with brass axles. The flanges appear to be a bit large. Underbody detail is basic but finely molded. They are definitely a cut above Athearn BB.
I have seen them at model train shows. The original price sticker on mine says $17.00 Cdn. but I’m not sure what date that was from.
Dave
P2K wheels have the AAR casting marks on the face side. Pretty neat detail. But those are fairly obvious, as they are metal wheels on slippery engineering plastic axles.
–Randy