Red cedar shingles are often soaked in water or stain before use, especially if they have dried out in shipment and/or storage. As such, they become flexible enough to be installed flat without cracki

The ship in the photo is indeed HMS Implacable. After putting her planes and aircrew ashore in Australia, she transported troops for repatriation, many of them formerly held in Japanese POW camps. She

The following was posted on another list and may be of interest: www.nakina.net has this image: http://nakina.net/photos/cn1/cn117312.jpg which is one of the numbers Rapido is offering in CN. Doug Rho

Hello Greg I can't offer a documented history, but the car in your photo bears a lot of visual similarities to cars of the Union Oil Company of Canada Ltd, for example, UOKX10010. The assets of Union

It's mostly outside the scope of this list (except for the head end cars) but some Norwest products are expected to live on in new rendition. This from the website of the BGR Group http://home.cogeco.

I don't mean to take anything away from JP's comprehensive post, and I am certainly not qualified to comment on the main subject of Varney models, but in the spirit of historical accuracy that drives

Perhaps "Baobab" was not entirely a nonsense name for "an excessive dimension car ". By some measures the Baobab is one of the largest trees on earth, at least in terms of girth. The largest is record

Thanks, Tim, for that clarification. As others have pointed out, there is good detailed info in the Jim Little articles in RMC in the October 1994 and March 1995 issues, where variations within the CP

Hello Clark Here are some number series you might consider: 10 foot high cars (1937 design) CP226000-228799 built 1937 CP248350-252249 built 1941-1946 10 foot 6 inch high cars (1944 modified design) C

Clark, you can use the "stepped block" decals your friend likes on a "minibox" since these cars were were seen with this scheme (as they were with the later "script" scheme.) The cars had a very long

Hello Frank There is a random number generator function in Excel. Have a look at the help screens for it, where some of the examples will apply to this problem. Send me an email off-list if you'd like

Hello Joe They are now a product of Hobbycraft Canada under their True-Line Trains brand. Their web site shows these trucks as out of stock. One place online you might try is: http://www.modeltrains.c

Richard Hendrickson had an article in the December 1995 Railroad Model Craftsman that you might find helpful. In that article it says that "...about two thousand were delivered to UTL between 1903 and

The presence of heater coils is a strong hint that these cars were used for heavy fuel oil, also known as bunker C. In the steam era, Vancouver refineries were operated to produce an unusually large p

"... but it's long hual to northwest Canada for most of us." Agreed. However, "northwest Canada" i.e. the Yukon territory beside Alaska, is about 2500 miles from where these archives are located. They

Hello Clark Names sometimes arose before places looked on the map the way they do today. When Ontario entered Canada it was a much smaller province, basically just the area immediately north of the Gr

Not quite right about the history of prohibition in Canada. Prohibition in Canada was a provincial matter. There was some overlap with the period of prohibition in the US, with some Canadian jurisdict

The short answer is yes - it was the Canadian subsidiary of Union Oil of California, active mostly in the 1930s and 1940s and its British Columbia operation was closely intertwined with that of Imperi

The Life Like name was used under license in Canada by Hobbycraft. Some of the Canadian products stayed with Hobbycraft and are now marketed under the True Line Trains marque. Try this URL for those t

Thanks, Lars, for that info from the Heinz 1910 Salesman's Handbook! So, at least for the figs if not the pickles, the usual vinegar, salt and spice "liquor" would have the salt replaced by sugar? And