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| British Columbia Hydro Railway 7533 gets a roll-by inspection in London, Ontario on April 01, 1988. |
By Peter Mumby.
I
suspect that we've all seen photos of the Model Railroader logo on a
real freight car, but here is a similar design on a car belonging to a
relatively obscure railway. This BC Hydro Railway car (BCH 7533) was
photographed in London, Ontario on April 01, 1988. In the photo a
railway employee is doing a roll-by inspection while standing on the
inside of the red and white crossing gate. (How many of you remember
when they were painted black and white?). At this time BCH had a group
of similar cars in a yellow/red scheme in the 6xx number series, but I
don't know how many of these blue cars were on the roster. I also have a
shot of BCH 7611 bearing this special logo; I suspect there must have
been others without the logo. This logo promotes the 1985 PNR
convention in Richmond, B.C. Refer to the close- up view. I vaguely
recall an HO scale MDC rendition of this car being offered complete with
this PNR logo, but for some reason I resisted the urge to order one.
Opportunity missed! Oh well, one more item to watch for at the next
train show!
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| This close-up view of the same car shows that the logo was promoting the
1985 PNR convention of the NMRA. Thanks to Don McQueen for engineering
this scan. |
Hi George. I checked with some friends who were on the convention committee. BC Hydro did 21 cars with the convention logo. They had a contest looking for proof of the farthest car from Richmond (a suburb of Vancouver BC). The farthest spotted was delivering a shipment of lumber to a business in Florida. The convention sold both HO and N scale models of the cars. This was my first convention and it was great fun
ReplyDeleteThanks for the additional information Ken. Interesting to hear that many cars had been done. I know Peter will be delighted with this information...George
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