For an similiar type car in HO have a look at TrueLine Trains web page TLT 300497 CPR 8 Hatch Reefer: http://www.modeltrains.com/WEB%20-%20CMT/True%20Line%20Trains/HO/true-line-trains-canadian-pacific

I believe you should be looking for insulated box cars subject to Heated Car Service The Railway Association of Canada, Code of Rules for handling Perishable Traffic effective May 1, 1938. Heated car

Message 86579 spoke to these cars handling frozen fish into the New England states as well there are other messages including I believe a reference to the same service to a CA destinations. RMC had a

MIT - Traffic was initially billed to a transit station and had to be referenced as such on the bill of lading. There is a time limit on transit which I can't recall off the top but it would be someth

"Lumber definitely could be diverted before it reached its final destination. And diversions could go in any direction, as long as someone paid for it (the diversion, that is)." Lumber cars could be b

"Per diem was a fixed daily charge. I don't think railroads paid mileage on other railroads' cars. I think the only time railroads played per diem games was when cars were near interchanges, and then

"Ah, but Dennis, suppose I shipped a box car of $100 bills to the bank, and withdrew it again as pennies?" Less the charge for transit - transit would be considered a priviledge. Ross McLeod Calgary _

"I've heard of storage in transit for grain, but milling in transit?? Wouldn't the transformation of bulk grain into bags of flour involve an entirely new tariff?" It would always be that way, once th

"Stop off cars also handled thing like appliances, farm machinery, etc". Correct, I believe with ag imps you could have up to three stop offs, baler twine as many as you wished. There was also stop of

"Sure, Ross, but the FIRST RULE is to "Protect the shipment." You could not care less about car hire if a shipper needs that empty car. Now of course you don't keep empties sitting around idle, and th

"Exactly right, VIv, and that's in fact the entire basis of why the G-N idea can be true: you used what you had if you were short of cars, REGARDLESS of the AAR rules, and that available empty could b

"The railroad term would "stop off to partially unload". Freight rate would be for the entire weight of the commodity from origin to final destination, with a stop off charge for each stop off point."

In my experience trees moved from British Columbia in standard box cars to Texas - late sixities. Carriers restrict the use of high class cars for hauling material that would damage the inside of the

Frank - Try Glenbow Archives: NA-2849-22 Construction of Imperial Oil Calgary Refinery, Ogden, Alberta - 1923 First shipment of crude from Coutts, originating in Montana, United States. Ross McLeod Ca

Frank - what you may find interesting is that inaddition to CPR traffic interchanged to GN at Coutts/Sweetgrass you will also find CNR traffic (Edmonton...) traffic interchanged to CPR Calgary for GN

Rob if I understand your area of modelling interest correctly I think you have picked an area with lots of traffic potential, I believe you are modelling a time and place ie Vancouver from the end of

Have you found a source that demonstrates the movement of empty USA cars into Canada for lumber loading? To what era does it apply? JF Garden's British Columbia Railway page 90 - photograph shows the

Of course, if rules were followed, the choice of route and destination were limited because of tariffs and other regs. re crossing the border. One of the rules I don't have any insight into is how the

I have a West India Fruit & Steamship brochure: "Fast Movement for Perishables Hundreds of carloads of Cuban grown pineapples, as well as other perishables are handled annually over this route. Loaded

Dennis - I am sure you are right, likely uniquely Canadian and maybe only one sided. By that I mean the other carriers (cnx's) may or may not have gone along with the BCE in their acceptance of old BC