When I learned of the fantastic prototype modeling of Montreal's Central Station on Sylvain's the Bonaventure et Chambly Model Railroad I was very excited to meet and chat with him.  His layout has lots of Urban scenery based on Wellington Street in Griffintown (located south of Downtown Montreal) where the railway Viaduct to Central Station is located . 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQiE_cvfPks

 VIA #24 (Montreal-Quebec), has an exciting three way meet at Drummondville Station.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIOpE8lpsTY

 Some of Sylvain's realistic urban scenery depicts Quebec's auto routes and industries.

The CN Turbo departs Central Station and heads to Toronto at track speed! (Compare his model Turbo  video speeds with the real thing video posted below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t7KcrRqNTk&feature=youtu.be

 The real CN TURBO at Track Speed  - The Turbo Story!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETYDiT4h4oU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qegIRh9DFHc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iLBP0qPg_k

Something a little different this month: FEC GP38-2 424 is HO scale Athearn Ready to Run unit with light weathering. 

GRVS 3 is a covered hopper for home road Genesee River Valley System.

Restricted Service Buffer Car BNSF 808032 shows her restenciling with light weathering. These cars usually loaded with sand are used to protest the lead locomotives and crew.

The two complete cars look great posed side-by-side on Rob's work space!

 

CP Leased  Chessie System EMD GP38-2's  on Bob Fallowfield's layout move light  near the yard at Woodstock, Ontario.

HO Scale CP RAIL SD40-2 6046 is shown backing up to yard.

An Image of the prototype GMD-built SD40-2 CP 6046 that Bob has emulated well. 

A CP Rail (Center Cupola) van and stock car on the tail end of an outbound.

A CP Rail freight led by a GP35, GP30 and C424 round the curve and are about to pass the station. 

 

WC 12020 is dropped off at the Georgia Pacific Lumber distributor on Ken Sherts HO Scale Norfolk Southern Layout. 

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THE 1971 CN DISPLAY TRAIN

To serve as a Canadian National Railway marketing and promotion vehicle, in September 1970, the CN Pointe St-Charles Shop painted four of their rail cars with billboards (on one side only), to showcase the types of varied loads the railroad transports for their customers.  The effort was intended to showcase CN as an innovative developer of resources in the Canadian economy. Photos of these cars were used in CN's sales brochures as marketing tool.  The opposite sides of the freight cars were painted in the standard 1970-era CN noodle livery.  Obviously, these specially painted railcars were highly sought by rail fans all wishing to be lucky enough to catch each one, which was made more difficult because only one side had the billboard!  Leading the unique rail car consist CN assigned an immaculate MLW 6-axle (CN M636 2335) along with brand new PSC-built caboose (CN 79460) bring up the rear. 

The train was posed to the public in Belleville, ON (as well as for CN employees in Montreal and Toronto).  Derek Henderson photographed CN M636 2335 and the four freight cars and new CN caboose on display at Belleville, Ontario on July 3rd, 1971. The date coincided with the countdown to the retirement of CNR 6218 (a 4-8-4 Northern) which was running her final excursions during July 3rd and 4th 1971 to Anson.    It is interesting to note that all the cars stayed painted this way until retired and scrapped in the 1980's and 1990's  (None were saved).  Derek's photo shows  the CN locomotive, the four cars, and tail end CN van displayed in Bellville. ON. 

The very colourful chemical covered hopper (CN 370708) was built in 1966 and was especially liked by rail fans as it looked almost like a roll of Lifesavers candies!  Two bad it was only painted like this on one side. Earl Minnis shot the car in regular freight service in Amherstburg, Ontario back on June 8th, 1972. For those interested the chemical formula depicted on the car is hexamethylene di-isocyanate, and yes, I had to Google it!

 The very eye-catching art work on the CN 50-foot newsprint car (CN 401527) depicted Canada's premier newspapers from most major cities in the country.   The lettering was two feet high and really stood out!  The car was a cushion under frame 50-plug door newsprint car built in 1966, of which CN and CP had in their fleets in abundance.  

The oldest of the display cars was CN 283032, an insulated 50-foot box car built by National Steel Car back in April 1965, It sported a bright red apple. 

The newest of the quartet was CN 235091, a  two year old  50-foot Mechanical Refrigerator (with the large plug door), built in August 1969,  Inside this  car was equipped with meat supporting rails and had the latest refrigeration system available.  It was painted in a colourful rendering of the different cuts of meat on  beef cattle.

 

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ONTARIO:

St. Jacobs & Aberfoyle Model Railway

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St. Jacobs & Aberfoyle Model Railway is North Americas finest "O"Scale Layout and showcases Southern Ontario during the 1950"s.

QUEBEC:

West Island HO scale Modular Railroad Club
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The Montreal, Vermont and Essex Model Railway Club (Montreal, QC)
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The Montreal, Vermont and Essex Model Railway Club is an HO Scale layout modeling CN, CP, CV, and B&M in Quebec and Vermont in the 1950"s, but members also operate 1970"s, and 1980"s trains as well on occasion. Vermont and Essex Model Railway Facebook:
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