3rd rail "The Canadian" cars?

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Wow, the silence is deafening.

 

I thought these trains would be more popular and generate some discussion here. I too certainly would like to know they turned out after all his time and what their owners think of them.  Maybe these sets just haven't reached them yet.

Patience... 3rd Rail started to work on shipping these to customers only 7 days ago.

I received my set today (3 rail version). Here is the "Laurentide Park" observation car:

 

 

 

WOW does that ever look good, are the rest that nice? what does the park car look like with the interior lights on?

Absolutely beautiful!

From what I can see they best Atlas In: detail- accuracy- and getting the dang set done ON TIME!

Yet another Home run Scott!

The dome is just FABULOUS

These flush windows with gaskets are an advancement in the state of the art.  Beyond that, I will have to wait for some more detailed photos to make a judgement.

The details on the atlas cars underbody is exceptional. The end detail is also tighter on the atlas from what I can tell. However the GGD cars overall appearance is finer, more authentic. The dome is what I wanted atlas to do so bad, I'm afraid only a brass etching can provide. Atlas was limited with tooling and the size maybe? Rapido trains dome is injected and fabulous but it's also ho. I'm just rambling. Any other thoughts?

Thanks bob

I am experimenting with adding correct PSC details to the cars. I think the ATSF Sc obs is fabulous simply marvelous.

In the past, when I tapped on an image I could get a fairly high resolution larger image. Since I cannot believe you are taking low resolution images, has the forum image processing changed?  Post these elsewhere, so I can truly enjoy GGD's new fidelity to Pullman corrugations?

Can you power up the track so we can see the interiors please?

 

Erik - Those PA's are beautiful!

I reduced the image size and resolution of my previously posted images to improve the upload/download speed. This time I have attached full resolution images of the side and dome of the car, as well as a couple of pictures with the interior lights on.

 

 

 

Thanks for the pix.

 

The cars look nice, but I'm curious: are they are  polished or painted and how is the overall finish?

Scott - thank you for bringing these cars to us. I am happy to have gotten a set at virtually the last minute, and was so impressed with them that it prompted me to try (for the first time) to figure out how to post pictures to this forum.

We did produce 3 different schemes of THE CANADIAN. we made the one you see above (1950s CP), the CPRAIL version and the VIA version. The earliest version was by far the most popular. Very few ordered CPRAIL and VIA was mildly popular. Because these cars require a lot of labor, and little tooling, the cost is not amortized with high quantities. We could make as few as 50 sets, and as many as 200 sets more, and the cost would be the same. We might consider it if we see a lot of requests. Time will tell. 

 

 

I ordered/ bought the CP-Rail set when Scott first announced this set and will post pictures when I'm back home again. How many CP Rail sets were made Scott? Just curious

received mine last week

 

most still in boxes, but opened observation car and it simply outstanding

 

now i need to build my layout

Those Canadian cars are beautiful and accurate.Sixty years or so Ralph Baldwin who marketed Pullman Bradley New Haven coaches and Pennsy GG1s mostly through Walthers built a Canadian from extrusions.Drilling and filing out the windows for a few months. Last I heard the train is still running at the Stamford club. Doc had infinite patience to do a project like this.

Really looking forward to these arriving. Paid my Hobby Shop over time for these.

A few $'s but looks like it will be worth it.

 

Domes look a lot more accurate then Atlas did.

Thanks Scott for taking the time to get these right and having a scale nut go over them to make sure they are right! That is what we are looking for when laying big $'s for a scale set.

 

??? In the photo above of the dome it looks like there is a straight cut line in the corrugated roof line?? Just in front of the curved part where it matches the roof line?? is this for removing the dome a separate casting?? 

 

I had the older set 10 car Canadian set and re striped it for VIA.

Had been told at the time when I got them from a friend that they were custom extruded and windows milled to CP specs I think he said they had been made in the 60's

I used a brass MAC shops dome kit for the Park and Skyline car domes.

It has been on my to do list to add interiors.

 

Really looking forward to the new train set thanks for running them Scott! 

 

Here are some pics of the early extrusion and shots of the CP engines Scott Ran for the Canadian they look great.

 

 

My VIA version arrived today.  Just a quick cell phone pick of Laurentide Park on my desk.  I'll pull out the full set tonight.  Fabulous set overall.

 

 

Very nice.  

 

I suspect that dome installation was one of those mistakes that cannot be caught in time.  It would have been slightly more difficult to cut the extrusion so that all corrugations were in the aluminum.  

 

I do my own from blank extrusions.  My cutouts are not as nice as these.

Wow! Scott they are amazing- thank you!!!!!

I've been busy with a 6 day old newborn; however I hope to get some video posted of the SC set in action.

Check this link:

http://youtu.be/WhYfRlkk-Mk