I was kind of teasing but FWIW the CNR's steel overhead ice bunker reefers were a gray (specifically CNR Grey No. 11 which is available both in Scalecoat1 and Modelflex paint with a Mineral Brown (CNR

An overhead ice bunker car as described in RMC a few years back now. Now tell me what color the CNR reefer is as well as its lettering.

I don't know any differently (and I can attest Don has definitely been looking at 1913-era built cars lately that some folks call Dominion cars and others call Fowler).

Hi: Our CNR freight car decal offerings are still pretty limited and, although the vision is much larger, we don't have a box car set of any kind as yet. If you wish to create something different than

Hi: Our CN Lines SIG product stocking dealers in the U.S. are Flying Yankee (John Hutchins) of Littleton MA, AA Hobbies in Rhode Island, and Des Plaines Hobbies. In Canada, the dealer list is much lon

Hi: The CN Lines SIG sells a nice 1945-1954 era tilted Green Maple Leaf monogram decal (Bob Smith of Railcad's artwork) through our many Canadian dealers and certain U.S. dealers. We list this set as

Hi Bill: I'm probably one of the key data suppliers to this project but haven't built any of the resultant kits (yet). As a general comment on Sylvan kits, one of their challenges is to ensure that th

I think you are referring to the large "inland grain terminal" that was constructed in the CPR's North Transcona yard of area here in Winnipeg ca 1918-20. One end of this terminal sank into our local

I acquired one of these chip swatches too in the CNR color study. It was cheaper than the PANTONE guide but there are far fewer colors and getting matches for anything is you truly want is well, unlik

Well said, Bob, been there, pretty much done it too!

Scalecoat for three of them. The crew that did the 2816 restore a couple of years ago caused the fourth to happen. Basically, Scalecoat had killed off two of its traditional CPR colors (Diesel Gray an

An interesting series of questions. When the CNR color study got done in the early 1990s we never found anything truly useful in this area (for example the Pantone Guide that I bought for $75 wasn't c

One of the things we have done in the CN Lines SIG (think of it as a volunteer- based historical society and FWIW I'm the chairman) is to commission our own line of CNR-system accurate paint in (no su

Hi to all: Bulk cement lurking behind "cement doors" in boxcars seems entirely plausible to me. I understand (and have seen lots of photo evidence to support same) that in western Canada, "rough-servi

Amen (many times over) to this "they are molded too long" thread!! Been there too often. Delrin versions at a typical "correct" length molded in brown-red with covered my modeler applied with flex-add

Thanks! Fortunately, when I modelled a car from that specific series (see my model article in Model Railroading ca 1993 for the detail) I removed the Accurail single stiffner and added two "stiffners"

Careful on Viking roofs. I think they varied over time and that Viking was more like Murphy and thus a brand name applied to several/multiple designs. The reason I think that is one of the builder ord

The CNR's Winnipeg Terminal area (aka the East Yard) had a "Fish Room" attached at the track-end of one of the four freight houses that were part of the team track area. Freshwater fish (iced, fillete

Hi again: A follow-up to the prior tome. <snip> OK so now I can add 424013 and the 424499 to this list of 1920-built cars. Yes Virgina, they do have an outside metal roof as-built. For whatever reason

Hi: The CNR cars Don Valentine is talking about below are the 16,750 later 5-foot door cars delivered to (1) the old Intercolonial (IRC)) and (2) then new Transcontinental divisions of the Canadian Go