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 Dear Sirs, Regarding the Multi Mark and CP Rail. As I said before, envision that Scheme applied to CP Steam Power, and you might get the Drift of what I mean. Would Look Horrid. Envision the Multi Mark Scheme applied to CP 15 Switching in Victoria in those Vintage Views. Would be as Jarring at that NYC Box in the Jade Green. The Stogy Tea Drinkers of Victoria would NOT be amused, especially in 1962. The First CP Rail Car I saw was CP 352200, an Experimental Bathtub NON Rotary Drawbar Coal Car Lettered for 'Coleman-Port Moody' Coal Service. This Car WAS bigger than the Standard Bottom Dump Hopper Cars then in use, now Extinct, and was the Prototype for the Legions of Bathtub Coal Cars we see on the Kootenay Division. This Glaring Red Car was like a Scream when positioned at Coleman for Loading. It could be seen on the Moon! Always drew a Crowd. A Coal Mine is Dark and Dirty. Then they Received the New Big CP 343400 Chip Service Cars from Napanee Industries for the Pulp Mill at Skookumchuck. THEY were huge by the Standards of the Day and stood out like the proverbial Sore Thumb. These Chip Cars, New Covered Hoppers and the Unit Coal train Cars had the Hand Brake on only one end, Four Wheels, and would Slide the Wheels on that end instantly even Loaded, making all sorts of Flat Wheels which Damaged the Track. ( When the Unit Trains first came out, they always operated Loaded West, Empty East. This Set Up uneven Wheel and Brake Wear due to Curves and Brakes being used in a wear pattern in one direction only. This caused the Brakes to Grab on Empty Trains, Skidding the Wheels. Whole Trains being affected. Bang, Bang, Bang on the Rails. The CP Solution was to Turn Coal Train Sets at Fort Steele every Six Months or so to equalize the Wear.. Worked well if only One Train on hand and Crew not Copulating the Canine. They had to reposition the Units and Caboose to Opposite ends and requalify the Slave Unit to recognize the new Front End. A Crappy Crew could make this last ALL Day. This Turning now takes place at Golden, and, presently, the Units are on each end of the Train, and they just Taxi the Engineer around. This Applies at Sparwood for Coal Trains from the East. CP finally realized they cannot PUSH 8000 Tons Upgrade with a Rear Slave GE without Damaging the Track on Curves. The Track Moves Over and Spike Heads on Outside Breaking Off. Apparently the Heavy Dynamic and Traction Cycles have Moved the Bridge at Elko on it's Heat Expansion Bearings for Sun and Cold. They should have known better, as there were ALWAYS Special Instructions regarding Backing Up Trains on Grades, and these Slaves at the Rear are, in effect, BACKING their Portion of Tonnage. ) Then the ultimate Insult!!! CLC H-16-44 CP 8548 Arrived in CP Rail in 1969. Looked Awful, as an H-Line is Ugly all the time. It immediately caught the eye from the Caboose 80 Cars back. CP RAIL Goofed with the CP Rail Scheme on Box Cars. For Harmony, or Something, they moved the Car Number to the Right of the Door on Box Cars so the Multi Mark could go on Left. SURPRISE!!! The Door Hid the Number when OPEN!!! It also put the Numbers on Two Cars Coupled too Close together on a Moving Train if Copying Numbers by Hand for a List. CP's 1968 Demo Multi Mark Train Headed by Two Multi Mark MLW 4200s and a Car of Each Colour with YELLOW Caboose was called "The Trainbow". Hmmmmm. I called it CP 14, as I do not know what Crestbrook Numbered it. It was set up by Adolf Hungry Wolf ( Lupus Ravenous ) to pull his Caboose from the Wye at Canal Flats to the Mill where the Caboose was put on a Truck and moved to his Property about Ten Miles South of the Mill between the Highway and the Kootenay River opposite the CP Siding at Torrent. Crestbrook got involved and handled the Two Cars of Logs from the CP to make it look like a Train. I don't think CP 14 normally was allowed West of the Highway Crossing as Track there is CPR, not Crestbrook. I was there that day, too. That whole Caboose move from Calgary is covered in the Book. Years ago CFI had a Big Bee Hive Burner at the Flats right near the End of Track where 14 was when we took the HS-5 Plate in 1990. Have not been back since. Those Burners are now passe, and they apparently use the Waste in the Value Added Mill. I thought those DT2s looked sort of Ridiculous, and they do look Pathetic Paddling along especially when Handling Bulk Head Flats Four Times their size, or those Auto Racks that look like Mail Boxes, etc. I saw my first one in Montreal a week after they Tied Up the Last Steam Engines and was not impressed. There was a CP MLW 8000 RS 23 just up from MLW Plant. Steam was DEAD. Ugly Rumors indicate Canada Post used DT2s on the Mail Trains to Expidite the Mail before that too went to the Trucks. Might not look too bad with the 'Swoosh' Logo. Some Modeller can do one up Painted Canada Post. Look Great along side an AC 4400 or 90 MAC Handling RPOs in Canada Post Scheme. Wouldn't Miss the Mail Bags with an HS-5! If you want to hear a bunch of Foaming about the Products of the Canadian Locomotive Company, lets talk C-Lines. They Lived here too for most of their Service Life, and were Maintained in Nelson, B.C. Good Engines for the Mountains and made General Motors look like Crap when it came to REAL Work. The Train Master, another Cult Diesel, was Built by CLC also. Thank Christ neither a C-Line nor a Train Master got the Multi Mark. Apparenty CP 352200 still exists in Coal Service. Renumbered, and Fitted with Rotary Drawbar. Very Noticeable when compared with newer versions as way Cruder in appearance.
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