Hi Russ
While FP7/9's with F7/9 "B" Units were certainly the intended power for "the
Canadian", there were many exceptions.If you have or can find a copy of
Nicholas Morant's book - "Canadian Pacific" , and look in the section at the
back that deals with "The Canadian" you can find shots that show road
switchers running with the "F's" (see pages 416, 440 and 432 as examples.
These shots show the road switchers trailing, and I suspect CP tried to at
least have a proper "A" unit in the lead.
Us model railroaders tend to be purists, and if we can, run trains such as
"the Canadian" with a matched consists. In real life, for many reasons, this
was not always possible.
Finally, the road switchers shown in the book have both the maroon and gray.
and the Multimark schemes.
I hope this helps
John
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-----Original Message-----
From: russ babington <russ.babington@...>
To: new cp list <c-p-r@...>
Date: Thursday, March 09, 2000 5:49 PM
Subject: [C-P-R] cp passenger trains
From: "russ babington" <russ.babington@...>
What kind of engines were used with the dome cars towards the last that CP
ran them? F7s? What paint scheme did they use, multimark?
Russ Babington
russ.babington@...
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