OH CANADA! Show us your Canadian-based layouts, rolling stock, and engines

No responses at all? Could they be right? US citizens don't know Canada exists? 

OK - I have one. One. Huh. I actually have more Mexican pieces (a handful) than Canadian. Why is that? Gosh - another group of RR's to buy...Oy. Still kicking myself for not buying the Weaver 4-4-4 Jubilee.

Canadian National 40' box car and two CANFOR plug-door box cars from MTH.

Canadien National 40' refrigerator car and Grand Trunk Western 40' refrigerator car.

Okay, Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette has run articles on some Canadian mining roads, maybe obscure to us south of the border (that border).  The White Pass and Yukon runs in(to) Canada.   I am sure there were others....all those big red grain elevators that once marched across eastern Alberta and the other Canadian prairie provinces.....some of them must have had their own short line serving them.  We have paid our admission and we want to see the models.  (I thought the problem was that U.S. citizens think New Mexico is ruled from Mexico City)

It's S Scale, but it's CP...

Rusty

Right now   the tracks are covered  , the rolling stock sitting on the shelf  waiting for  the nice warm weather   before I can get back out side to run the trains

had all engines cleaned and tuned over the   past few months  so all would be ready to roll once I can get the table uncovered .

It's N scale but it doesn't get much more Canadian than the GMD-1:

Bob

This is the one engine that took me longer to find than any other. The non-powered one will continue to reside in my display case. I use the powered one to pull my MTH Premier Via Rail passenger consist.

It's hard to believe but I found it on the big audit site's Australian counterpart.

Here is the link to the item on the auction website:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/141855...e=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Here in Albany we see lots of CP.  I have a Cp gp35,  CP Trainmaster, VIA Canada Rail passenger set and GE engine. cN es44 and some rolling stock.

I am still looking for a GP 7 or  9' in Canadien National like the one in the park in Toronto

I have 1 

OK.

here u go 

To Midnightwrecking-- your CN 6153  and CP 2317 are really cool....did you kit bash them?  What locos did you use  to begin with?  check my post history for some of my kit bashes/repaints of Canadian locos....I will post more after I take some more photos.  John A

Nice thread, eh?  

I wish Mike would get tired of RED!!  Someday maybe!!!  

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Ontario Northland PS-4 flat car with an industrial dust collection cyclone load.

Andrew

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Mike, where did you get that Blue Devil? 

Government of Canada cylindrical covered hopper.

Here are some shots of my CN equipment, featuring my custom GP38-2LW and SD50f  Canadian wide cab units, running on the late, great Independent HiRailers Midwest Division Layout.

Enjoy.

Maxrailroad posted:

Mike, where did you get that Blue devil?

Very nice photos good collections.

Here are some shots of my Canadian Pacific "Canadian" Passenger train on the ceiling loop.

And middle loop, runs over the washer dryer in the corner with a Rocky Mountains backdrop.

You can take a look at a lot of Canadian layouts photos and videos on the Canadian Toy Train Associations website;

http://www.canadiantoytrains.org/

Oh boy, here's the White Pass and Yukon Route!

While not based in Canada it operates daily in the summer into British Columbia and the Yukon Territory.

I've got a K-Line boxed set of 6 but no locomotive power for them yet!

My CP steamers . . .

Diesels . . .

CN Custom Caboose . . . (thanks, Malcom!)

British Columbia Railway double plugged-door box car from MTH.

A couple of repaints I did in the early-1980's:

I no longer own these, I hope they're still out there in the great somewhere.

Rusty

A pair of ES44's (MTH) that I got to pull a train of Gov't of Canada cylindrical hoppers:

And the early version of the train they pulled:

When this train runs next it'll have about 20-22 cars.

---PCJ

I tried to get this loaded with my pictures  but I was unable to do so , but as it appears this topic is still ongoing   and I was able to figure out how to post the video I have taken the occasion to do so 

my sole piece...

Terry, some beauties. I am guessing brass?

John A posted:

To Midnightwrecking-- your CN 6153  and CP 2317 are really cool....did you kit bash them?  What locos did you use  to begin with?  check my post history for some of my kit bashes/repaints of Canadian locos....I will post more after I take some more photos.  John A

Hey John, 6153 is from a 736 Berk and 2317 is from a pre-war 225E and 47 is from an MTH 2-6-0. The tenders are scratch built. I cannot run big scale steamers at present so I fudge them out of semi-scale stuff. 6153 and tender are 21 1/2 inches long.

Some Canadian Pacific motive power.

I have a Lionel CP boxcar, silver, with the old "beaver" logo on it.  It has the blue man which jumps out the side door.  Did the real CP have such cars, and what were they used for?

I have lots of connections with Canada, so I have included several themes in the layout I am building. First photo reflects my brother-in-law who is a retired heavy crane operator in Halifax. He worked on the Confederation Bridge to PEI. Had to use the CP gondola cars for my magnetic cranes.  Other photos show some fun with the popularity of beer in Canada and lobsters from the maritimes (the lobster car is not a Canadian road name, but still fun).  Mother-in-law born in North Bay, Ontario where we spend our summers on a beautiful lake, so I have an Ontario Northland theme (alas the railway no longer exists).  May look for a Canadian rail name for motorized unit for the rolling stock.  Now pulled by a Lionel loco. All fun.

Michael

midnightwrecking posted:

Terry, some beauties. I am guessing brass?

Hi Daniel:

Yes, the steamers are all brass. CP2816 is a Weaver. The others are 3rd-rail.

CP Rail boxcar from Lionel. Yes, CP did have waffle-sided boxcars, but CP left the boxcars in a basic gray scheme.