An HO scale Overland Models Inc BC Rail "Big Alco"... LokSound and LED equipped. It's fun to just listen to her idle!

Last IC 2461 Blue Devil I have done for a little while.  She also got new Loksound installed. Love the GE burble sound!

Sadly Rob, the prototype IC AC4400CW 2461 has since been repainted into CN livery.

An HO Scale MTH model of the CP ES44AC. Is it just me, or are the Cab windows a tad too large? Not my model...just asking.

Compare the windshield on this HO model of CP AC4400CW 8753.  

 

Braeden Dunne submitted these shots of HO scale models to share in CRO.  This Walther's Trainline American GP9m was modified into a CP GP9u and received prototypical weathering based on the prototype circa-2006, and completed using acrylic paint and powders applied by drybrush. He is very pleased with how well it turned out, especially on the trucks and with CP lettering.

 This scene was inspired by Steve Boyko's 2011 photo of CP 1597 and CP 5911 lashed together in Winnipeg Yard. I really wanted to recreate the moment, a GP9u and a remaining Large Multimark. Last photo used with Steve Boyko's permission.

His Walthers Trainline GP9m was my initial entrance into model detailing and weathering. Since its purchase in September 2013, this GP9m locomotive underwent some major improvement work to make it a very close 1/87 match to its GP9u prototype. Fully detailed, and weathered to resemble CP GP9u 1597 in the 2009 era.

Eric Gangon really endeavours to have unique structures on his HO scale Vancouver Wharves layout. Though he's never built Walthers" Red Wing Milling kit, he thought it was a neat-looking kit and was impressed with others modeller's who don"t build it as is, but rather kitbash it into a plethora of different types industries of varied footprints! Check out

Tom Poeschel completed the weathering on this BC RAIL Dash 8-40CM 4623, and it truly does represent those in service back in the day in BC. 

  

 

His latest project a Kaslo SD40-2F model, which will become CP 9011. Here the model is about ready for Action Red paint! This shell mounts up perfectly with the Kato SD40-2 frame. The quality of resin on these kits is top notch!

The prototype CP SD40-2F 9011 photographed by Mark Forseille.

 

 

Craig Watson's West Pickering Ontario Modular Layout

Growing up next to the railway in Falkirk, Scotland set the wheels in motion for a lifetime interest in railways, both model and the real thing.  This also led me into a career on the real railway in the UK which has lasted over 24 years to date.  I have an Aunt who emigrated to Toronto, Ontario Canada which offered me chances to  visit over the years, firstly in 1984, and most recently in the summer of 2015.

My interest in Canadian model railways was sparked at a young age by the arrival of a Tyco CP Rail locomotive  from my Aunt in Canada as a Christmas present, this being followed up over various birthdays and Christmas's by various locos and rolling stock.

Having built a previous layout of a UK traction maintenance depot which had been exhibited over 20 times in the UK I decided to have a change of direction and build a decent sized layout to run some of the Canadian stock I'd built up over the years. 

This led to the project to start the layout now known as West Pickering, it is set in a fictitious location on the Canadian National main line on the eastern side of Toronto, the layout was built over a period of approximately 5 years by myself and my son James. The line is busy with a mainstay of heavy freight trains heading from MacMillan yard towards all points east, this traffic includes automotive, intermodal and general manifest trains, usually hauled by at least two locomotives, main line passenger services operated by VIA Rail Canada also pass through with the occasional service calling at the station of West Pickering, local Toronto suburban services are also handled by GO Transit's distinctive Bi Level commuter trains.

One project I'm particularly proud of is the GO Transit advertising car 2401 carrying the Toronto FC advert carried by the real thing in 2008, this wrap was done using homemade decals.

There are also several industry tracks in the area which are serviced by a local working from nearby Oshawa yard, occasionally traffic will also be added to passing freight trains.

The layout has been built using Peco code 83 track and the stock is a mixture of products from the various American/Canadian manufacturers, there are also a few locos which have been modified with prototypical Canadian cabs or built from resin kits, the weathering of the rolling stock is also an ongoing project!! The layout is controlled by a Digitrax DCC system, with points controlled from control panels using a mixture of individual point controls and diode matrices for the fiddle yard.

The main shopping mall area to the rear of the station has been built from various kits and was inspired by my trips to the Toronto area over the years, most recently in the summer of 2015. 

The pictures of my modular layout were taken by Ian Rankin, another Scottish modeler of Toronto area railways whose layouts have been an inspiration to me over the years.  We hope you enjoy viewing our little slice of Canada as much as we have enjoyed building it! 

You may contact Craig at: craig.watson21@btinternet.com

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