This is the other side of my scratch built SD90MAC-H-II. In case you missed the left side, it is a scratch built shell (started life as a RPP) on a Kato drive.
This is my model of CP 9302, my namesake unit! The frame and drive are Kato, the walkways and sills are RPP and the rest is scratch built using styrene, Cannon doors and many other detail parts. I built this in the late 1990's, and it still looks right at home with my more recent builds...
An FA-1 AB set sits quietly on the trestle just a few hundred metres from the summit after stalling out, and it will have to wait for a pair of GP9s to come from the helper base before it can continue
Looking at this photo you'd probably think this is pretty new stuff for the early 90s. A Geep painted in the dual flag sheme (NAFTA) livery, a VIA blue car and a red colored SOO boxcar. These are all repaints/rebuild however. The 40' boxcar has been around for many years in an older SOO livery...
When shopping around for locomotives, this one caught my eye. Walthers has a huge selection of GP9M's, in many liveries. CP livery is done better then CN IMHO. So I bought it, primarily for switching and transfer duty. Here it's sititng at the station along with an IHC BN C-Liner, awaiting their...