Sunday 8 February 2015

CPR Woodchip Cars - Models

Peter Mumby's fleet of CPR woodchip cars make an appearance on the White River Division earlier this week.
This is the last of the woodchip posts...I hope to get back to my layout and current modeling projects. I may do an update post early next week if all goes as planned. These three CPR woodchip cars are from Peter Mumby's collection. None are built by Peter. They are though built by a gentleman who attends our local train shows  here in Southwestern Ontario. He is a CPR modeler who does a great job at it. Peter and I thought we should touch on the other big Canadian railroad that ran woodchip cars. So the WRD had an appearance of Peter's CPR fleet. At some point I my take a look at the New England railroads that offered their own versions of these cars....George Dutka

One of the CPR woodchip cars is a 40' version with a full load. We both really liked the looks of a string of these cars loaded and is something we are considering in future car construction.
A CPR 50' woodchip version that has a really weathered look.
This particular car has one door open with a wooden board insert added on one side. The builder must have used a prototype photo to come up with this look. The paint patch adds some additional character to the car.

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2 comments:

  1. Sandtrap19 August 2024 at 16:46

    Hi George,
    For the last month I've been searching for CP wood chip cars in the 70's and came up blank until I found your blog. Can you tell me if all those CP pictures and the ones from Ontario Northland are typical of the 70's? and if there is any info on how to scratch build them?
    Thanks
    PS. Love you blog

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  2. George Dutka20 August 2024 at 07:49

    Hi there, don't know of anyplace that will tell you how to build the CP version but Peter and I had an article published in RMC decades ago about how we built CN woodchip cars that would have been used in the 1970's. I would think these CP cars would work for that era especially the boxcar red car. Use the search feature on the sidebar on the right and search CN woodchip cars for more information. Glad you like the blog and thanks for following along...George

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