ho canadian pacific transition era passenger car models

[redden1967]

Hello,

which ho canadian pacific transition era passenger car models have been produced. I have acquired atlas coaches and I know that rapido has produced models. Are the rivarossi models very accurate and I have noticed that branchline and walthers have not produced heavyweight models. I am curious as to why there is not models produced by branchline and walthers. Does anyone know wether atlas will produce the heavyweight 8-1-2 sleepers. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Regards redden1967

 

[cv_acr]

The trouble with passenger cars is that they tend to be very unique and built specifically for the railroad that ordered them.

The Rapido stainless-steel cars are specifically representative of Canadian Pacific's flagship transcontinental train "The Canadian", introduced in 1955. So they are accurate for CP, but used primarily on this specific train.

There aren't any other accurate models of any CP-specific cars, so you either find old craftsman resin etc. kits (BGR group made lots of CP and CN specific heavyweight car kits in resin, but these are craftsman kits for experienced modelers, and the company's owner retired several years ago, so these could be REALLY hard to find) or do some really extreme kitbashing, or just accept stand-ins.

The Rivarossi models are not accurate, and I'm not sure what you mean by Branchline* and Walthers not producing heavyweights, because they both definitely did, unless you mean not in CP colours.  (*Branchline tooling now owned and produced by Atlas.)

 

If you can get undecorated cars (or strip factory painted cars) and paint them, Black Cat Publishing has good CP lettering: https://www.blackcatdecals.com/