@jonathan @GG1_4877 Great looking Sante Fe and VIA passenger trains in the video. What a fabulous looking VIA Rail Park car ! I have the MTH VIA passenger cars but don't recognize that Observation Park car. Is that an MTH model? or 3rd Rail ? Thanks !
@Kyle Miller posted:@jonathan @GG1_4877 Great looking Sante Fe and VIA passenger trains in the video. What a fabulous looking VIA Rail Park car ! I have the MTH VIA passenger cars but don't recognize that Observation Park car. Is that an MTH model? or 3rd Rail ? Thanks !
The VIA cars are Golden Gate Depot (3rd Rail). I have one of 12 sets that were painted in that scheme when I worked on that project back around 2014. Since I run it on a US western themed layout, I call that that train the "Snowbird". 
The Santa Fe train is a club train.
Thanks very much! I have a friend up here in Vancouver who has one of the sets as well. They're gorgeous. I missed out 
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@Mike Casatelli posted:@DylTrains , your thread started well and just keeps getting better. Going back to the great scene in your original post, is the station in the background from the Railroad Avenue Reproductions kit for a CN 3rd Class Station? I'm in the market for a scene setting project of my own and this may be it.
Thanks,
- Mike
@Mike Casatelli , Thanks! Yes that station is one of those kits. Its a pretty nice building based off the CN 3rd class station from Bellis, Alberta. My own's green color paint might be slightly off how it looks today (more lime than olive), but it still makes for quite the little county scene! I suppose it wouldn't be too difficult to stucco 'modge podge' (or something similar) to the walls and add thin wood strips for those horizontal baggage cart running strips for a later CN appearance as an alternative as well...
@DylTrains, Thanks very much for your quick and informative reply. That very evocative scene of yours is what I'd like to create for myself. Of course, I'd have to get that shade of green just right . . . 
@DylTrains End-to-end, that's one good-looking CN train you have there.
@GG1 4877 I second everything @Kyle Miller has to say above about your SF/CP video. As you may remember, I have the GGD Canadian set in the original CP scheme. Seeing your stunning VIA set, I wish I had gotten it, too.
I'm a passenger train junkie, and youze guyze all amp up my envy level.
Cheers,
- Mike
@Mike Casatelli posted:@GG1 4877 I second everything @Kyle Miller has to say above about your SF/CP video. As you may remember, I have the GGD Canadian set in the original CP scheme. Seeing your stunning VIA set, I wish I had gotten it, too.
- Mike, as you may remember, it was you who let me know that the VIA Rail F40PHs were cataloged again and helped me obtain them through the hobby shop you worked for at the time. I am eternally grateful for that!
Hi Folks,
Relatively new to the forum (at least posting as I have been reading for a year or so). No club affiliation yet…live in S. Ontario close to Michigan border about an hour from London.
I currently have a fastrack setup on my basement floor and plan on starting a layout build in the next few months. I have two young boys that will mean progress will be slow. Very new to layout building so will be reading and searching the forum for tips and help.
I have a few Lionel lionchief, LC+ engines (Lots of UP due to a brief period spent living in Texas)…got my first legacy CP 4-6-0 this week. I find the lionchief plus stuff is great for kids.
Would love to connect with folks if you are in my neck of the woods.
John
