Earlier this month I took delivery of a few more S scale freight cars, built for me by my friend Pierre Oliver.
CPR and GCW boxcars
The Canadian Pacific Railway boxcar is a Kaslo Shops kit for a PS-1. It has a resin body plus photo-etched details. The PS-1 was a common boxcar back in the era I model, but it hasn’t been well represented in 1:64. This resin kit is lovely, but out of production and hard to find now. It would be great if a manufacturer produced a decent plastic kit for these in 1:64 – but that’s about as likely as riding a unicorn: Mass market S scale is pretty much a thing of the past.
The Chicago Great Western boxcar started as a plastic kit from Pacific Rail Shops for a 1937 AAR car. Several years ago, the Railroad Prototype Modelers meet in the Chicago area produced mini-kits for modelling these cars – and included a version in S scale. The modeller supplied the boxcar, while the mini-kit included detail parts and decals to modify and finish it.
CNR GS Gons
Pierre also built two more Canadian National Railways GS Gons for me, from kits manufactured by fellow S scaler and friend Simon Parent. I now have four of these: the newest pair join two that Pierre delivered earlier this year. I have more of these kits so the fleet will continue to grow. I’ll use these to serve Walker Brothers – a quarry in Thorold.
Pierre built, painted, and lettered the kits, while I finished them with Kadee couplers, air hoses from BTS, and weathering.
I need to build more NS&T layout this winter, to accommodate my growing fleet and really bring the operation to life.
The Model Railway Show 