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Well, after using Hattons off and on for forty years (through my father in the early days) I just received what looks like my final order. I am sad that they are going out of business, as it means getting stuff shipped to me will be more expensive, but I understand that nothing lasts forever. I wish everyone there all the best in their future endeavors.

All of the stainless steel cars tested passed. Sad that they destroyed several of them to discover that.

If anyone is interested I found a works list in the book 'Power for the world's railways: GEC Traction and its predecessors - 1823 to the present day'. It can be purchased for cheap off ebay.

Thank you. I have already seen that and it is from 1962 onwards that I am looking for, when the Vulcan Foundry numbers would have been prefixed by a D or an E, which actually started before 1962 but carried on well past that date. It does seem that the lowest D number was D46, which corresponds to Drewry 2217 (LNER DS1173), and digging through the records shows all diesels before that to have regular VF series numbers.

Sorry, just locomotives. I will change the initial post to reflect that.

Just wondering if anyone here has a full copy of the works list, with works numbers, for locomotives built by English Electric?

I am the one that provided that book to Barrowmore so if anyone needs a larger scan let me know. I am so glad I grabbed those books when I did as my ex wife junked the rest of my diagrams, BR, Canadian, Turkish. ☹️

J-trains split in Brockville.

Living next to the Kingston Sub I have seen quite an mix of Budd cars on the end of the corridor trains, unless I am trackside with a camera in which case it is all LRC cars. This may work for now but if they need to run buffer cars into the summer it may become interesting as they will need the sleepers etc for the Canadian. I am actually surprised that they don't put an LRC car on the end of the HEP trains.

My father sent me this, he has the card in his collection, as I recently got a model of 10100. Thought it was interesting to look at.

Several Budd cars, including a 'Park' were recently sighted at CAD in Lachine, apparently for the interiors to be removed, before heading to the NAC in Ottawa for testing. The other news I have heard is that the Canadian Government is going to take away the HFR and award it to a private company, both for construction and operation.

No kidding, looked at ordering something and when the shipping came up it was about 10x the price of the item!

No need for reversal at BNS, just take the train down the Camp Hill line and around the Lifford Curve then up through Five Ways. It's been done before.

Canada Post can be strange when it comes to tracking, even through you have a tracking number it doesn't actually track.

That would be Durham College Oshawa, the college being on the other side of the city from the station. However this is only a temporary renaming and I believe is supposed to revert to Oshawa in ten years. When I worked in Calgary there was talk of renaming the C-Train stations after corporate sponsors. It seemed to be a serious attempt to generate extra revenue but went no where in the end. The funniest was Victoria Park Station which was suggested to become Victoria's Secret Park Station.

Not to hijack this thread, but what about named passenger cars? While common in North America, and on Pullman cars, was there anywhere else that named passenger cars?

There were also two Turkish 2-10-0's that were named, T56201 and T56202 which were 'Karakurt' ('Blackwolf') and 'Bazkurt' ('Graywolf') respectively.

I know there are locomotives in Canada and the United States that are named, both freight and passenger. The Kowloon Canton Railway in Hong Kong named its early diesels while the Mass Transit Railway had two diesel locomotives named but that did not last long.

Funny as I wondered the same thing, but personally I would not want to risk messing up one model, let alone two!

Looking at this photo I would say that the Olivia's version maybe correct, it seems that the shading is lighter above the grey, immediately above the windows, while the center roof is green (looks like the lining goes over the roof just behind the nearest cab door). I do admit I like the way you painted it however.

Have you looked at the version offered by Heljan? The photos of it show a grey band above the windows while the top of the cab roof is green.

I was lucky enough to see NBSR SD70M-2 6401 heading east on CP's Belleville Sub while on delivery. I guess it may only be a matter of time before either CP or CN absorb the NBSR.

What was the GP38-3? Asking as I know CN has two now, 7600 and 7601.

They look a little unripe to me, better not pick them until they are blue!

When I was doing my initial research almost thirty years ago one of my contacts at GEC informed me that four bodies for new locomotives were shipped to Poland and arrived there in late August 1939, but then disappeared. I seem to remember that they were listed as class E110. However aside from that information I have never heard anything else. There was another electric railway that the PKP operated in Silesia, the Walim - Jugowice line which was energized at 1kV DC. This was operated by a single Bo centre cab locomotive numbered E401 that is preserved in Warsaw.