Aaaahh! Finally, more pictures of the Island of Newfoundland... What a treat to see such a dog's breafast!!! CN engines, CP box car and two CN passenger cars... Excellent shot John!
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| Posted by James on August 7, 2006 | |
...and someone is on their way to a wedding (look at the red car about the cross the tracks behind the train :-)
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What I want to know is why there's a narrow gauge CP boxcar on the rock in the first place!
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Is that a standard gauge boxcar with narrow gauge trucks???
I usually build Burlington Northern, UP, and ARR standard gauge, plus WPY narrow gauge, and plan to connect them with an Alaska RailBelt Marine barge.
I recently picked up a G8 just because I thought that this would make a neat addition to my Sn3 operation.
Looking at that boxcar, I'm wondering if it's merely a standard gauge boxcar with narrow gauge trucks?
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| Posted by on May 18, 2014 | |
It is a standard gauge car. To avoid having to unload and load cars repeatedly, CN operated a shop near the Newfoundland ferry terminal where a car would be lifted off its trucks and narrow-gauge ones would replace them. The standard gauge trucks were marked with that car's number and saved for when it returned.
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