12-21-2015, 10:12 AM
Glen, that tender looks very CPR-ish to me! Excellent job. I think you're going to end up with a very convincing model that hides its MDC generic lineage.
About the decals, I'm not even sure CPR 4-6-0 even sported such a fancy herald as the crown. That kind of logo was reserved to more glamour engines. Very old photographs from the early 1900s show a fancy beaver shield on some 4-6-0 cab (similar but not identical to the one on the MCD cab). However, most of them only had "Canadian Pacific" slapped on the tender and numerals on the cab. Maybe a few had the decorative gold fillet on the tender side, but that wasn't the standard (I've only seen it on Quebec Central CPR-leased locomotives). In a word, the way around the stumbling block is an easy way out.
http://members.shaw.ca/cprsteam/steamcpr...066-01.jpg
Good luck Glen!
Matt
About the decals, I'm not even sure CPR 4-6-0 even sported such a fancy herald as the crown. That kind of logo was reserved to more glamour engines. Very old photographs from the early 1900s show a fancy beaver shield on some 4-6-0 cab (similar but not identical to the one on the MCD cab). However, most of them only had "Canadian Pacific" slapped on the tender and numerals on the cab. Maybe a few had the decorative gold fillet on the tender side, but that wasn't the standard (I've only seen it on Quebec Central CPR-leased locomotives). In a word, the way around the stumbling block is an easy way out.
http://members.shaw.ca/cprsteam/steamcpr...066-01.jpg
Good luck Glen!
Matt
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