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The Canadian Pacific transcontinental train "Dominion"
« on: October 07, 2011, 10:07:43 PM »
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Well; I've bored the hell out of you asshats for four years building this damn thing... but today; finally; I completed the 20th car for the Canadian Pacific Dominion. I still want to add two sleepers but as the consist stands now, it is very close to typical summer consist from about 1952 - 1955 when the "Canadian" was christened.

The Dominion ran as Trains 3 & 4 until 1966, often begging stainless equipment to augment the existing tuscan light and heavyweight equipment it used and that I have modeled. If Jason Shron and Rapido make good on their promise to make an n scale RTR Canadian, I will be able to truly "nail" the Dominion that ran during the 1960's.

I can now turn my attention to detailing and finishing the Intermountain FP units that will power the train.

I have posted a photobucket album of the train at:

http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h463/Puddingtonvalley/The%20Canadian%20Pacific%20Dominion/

 As I am sure all of you know; when a project takes this long, the cars you built at the start will not be as good as the cars you built last; you learn and evolve as a modeler. That said, I'm happy with the Dominion and I'd like to thanks the "collective" here for the encouragement, the critiques, the comedy and for putting up with "dat guy from da north" and his CPR passenger stuff. Your help has been truly a blessing in this project.

The Dominion is now departing on track 2... all aboard..... :D



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Re: The Canadian Pacific transcontinental train "Dominion"
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2011, 10:31:08 PM »
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Do the ends touch when you run it?  :)

Nice job.


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Re: The Canadian Pacific transcontinental train "Dominion"
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2011, 10:44:40 PM »
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Quote from: wcfn100 on October 07, 2011, 10:31:08 PM
Do the ends touch when you run it?  :)

Nice job.


Jason

Darn near Jason...time to actually buid the larger layout - thanks  :D
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« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2011, 10:45:36 PM »
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Very nice Puddy.

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Re: The Canadian Pacific transcontinental train "Dominion"
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2011, 07:23:33 AM »
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I really love this train .. I wish we still had heavyweights in regular service .. those are some fantastic cars .... keep up the good work ..

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Re: The Canadian Pacific transcontinental train "Dominion"
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2011, 07:51:59 AM »
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Nice train Pud!! Now we need a short video of it going by the camera.  ;)

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Re: The Canadian Pacific transcontinental train "Dominion"
« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2011, 07:52:23 AM »
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Pud,
Nice job.
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Re: The Canadian Pacific transcontinental train "Dominion"
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2011, 08:47:16 AM »
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I have to get the consist down to Toronto to Panther Hobbies. They have a huge, fully scenic'd layout where even a 20 car consist will be dwarfed. Alex the owner has invited me to run the consist any time I want and I will video it. Just waiting to finish the locomotives.
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« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2011, 09:19:09 AM »
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Outstanding work, old bean.  That work definitely deserves to go stretch its legs out on a big layout.

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Re: The Canadian Pacific transcontinental train "Dominion"
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2011, 10:15:41 AM »
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Great looking train.  I especially like all the headend equipment you got there.  Always did like mail and express equipment for some reason.  Can't wait to see your video of it doing it's thing.
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Re: The Canadian Pacific transcontinental train "Dominion"
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2011, 11:06:28 AM »
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Thanks Bob; I also really like head end equipment. After the Dominion was knocked down to "second banana" by the Canadian's arrival in 1955 the head end traffic grew even more; the Canadian didn't carry as much head end in order to keep her schedule so the Dominion picked up the slack. I've seen shots where she had six or seven head end cars... and that's where I'm headed... :facepalm: no pun intended.
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Re: The Canadian Pacific transcontinental train "Dominion"
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2011, 11:30:28 AM »
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Hats off to you, Pud. Darn nice looking train, but one question... is the horse car below 'Colonist' class accommodation?
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Re: The Canadian Pacific transcontinental train "Dominion"
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2011, 11:34:19 AM »
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Quote from: lock4244 on October 08, 2011, 11:30:28 AM
Hats off to you, Pud. Darn nice looking train, but one question... is the horse car below 'Colonist' class accommodation?

.... heck no... the Horses were more valuable than the tourist passengers...... :o :D
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Re: The Canadian Pacific transcontinental train "Dominion"
« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2011, 11:59:13 AM »
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That's a very nice train. Well done.
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« Reply #14 on: October 10, 2011, 07:05:56 PM »
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Not boring at all.  I love 1950s-era prototype modeling projects, and yours was one of the best. 

Thanks for posting,
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