Some Of my Favorite Cars

This car is what's called a Slab Sided Hopper. They were unique to Canadian railways only. This one is a model of a TH&B hopper and were a common site in the 1970's.
I believe they were used mostly for transporting powered cement and possibly bulk fertilizers.
I bought this one assembled unlike my other resin cars.

This is yet another car that does not see much action on my layout.
This car has the Canadian Centennial logo on the side. As much as I like weathering my rolling stock, I just can't bring myself to doing this car.

This car was made by Intermountain. There was only a limited number of these models build.
This is a model of an actual car that Canadian National had painted for promotional purposes.
It was the only car painted like this and was only like that on one side. The other side of the car is painted like a normal hopper car.
I have seen these cars on E bay selling for several hundreds of dollars.

The next car is also a Sylvan Resin Kit. These cars were also a regular visitor to my home town, although they didn't look as new as it does in this picture.

Well I figured it was time to show you folks some of the rolling stock that I don't normally have on my layout.
Most of these cars spend there time in a glass display case in my train room.
The first car I am showing you is a CN Slab Sided Hopper that I built from a Sylvan Resin Kit.
Many of these cars used to pass by my house when I was younger.
It was the only the second resin kit that I ever built.