Canadian Pacific plans expansion of St. Paul Yard NEWSWIRE

Steve Glischinski ST. PAUL, Minn. – While Canadian Pacific Railway has been “downsizing” several yards across its system since new management took over in 2012, the company is planning to expand its former Milwaukee Road yard in St. Paul. CP says it wants to extend five tracks at the east end of the yard by roughly […]

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Canadian Pacific E8 with the Alouette

CP owned just three E units: E8’s 1800–1802, the only E units purchased by a non-U.S. railroad. Less than a month old, No. 1800 leads the Boston–Montreal Alouette out of Woodsville, N.H., and across the Connecticut River into Vermont on December 30, 1949. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

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Kent Johnson’s O gauge Canadian Pacific

You’ve seen Senior Editor Kent Johnson’s Canadian Pacific layout in a number of how-to articles and Weekend Workshops in the pages of CTT – now let the man himself take you on a tour of his realistic, modern O gauge layout. This video is courtesy of our friends at Model Railroader Video Plus. […]

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Layout visit: Kent Johnson’s O scale Canadian Pacific

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader and Classic Toy Trains staff member Kent Johnson has a fabulous 3-rail O scale layout in his basement depicting the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Kent applies the same weathering and realism to his toy-train layout that one would to a scale railroad, […]

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Layout visit: Kent Johnson’s O scale Canadian Pacific

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader and Classic Toy Trains staff member Kent Johnson has a fabulous 3-rail O scale layout in his basement depicting the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Kent applies the same weathering and realism to his toy-train layout that one would to a scale railroad, […]

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Canadian Pacific selling SD9043MACs NEWSWIRE

WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Canadian Pacific has put its 58 EMD SD9043MACs up for sale. Built between 1998 and 2000, the 4,300 hp locomotives are available for sale, lease, or lease with buyout option. The locomotive were never popular with CP and often in storage in recent years. Of the 58, four were overhauled and are […]

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LIONEL O GAUGE CANADIAN PACIFIC FREIGHT SET

The Canadian Maple Leaf freight set may be the “Sir Mix-a-Lot” of starter sets because it jumbles up Canadian road names as well as eras. This is the third Lionel O gauge set we received for review in late 2011, and it may be the best of them. It combines an uncommon road name (for […]

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