Modeling the CP Sudbury Division of the 1970s How one innovative club manages to model the near-contemporary Canadian Pacific so well Reader Feedback
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hen the Canadian Pacific Railway began its march across Canada, it eventually arrived at the south rim of the basin which would be named Sudbury. The CPR selected this location as the junction for a branchline to Sault Ste. Marie to the west, while the mainline continued northwest around the north shore of Lake Superior. While blasting through the rocks the builders discovered copper ore near Copper Cliff – and the rest, as they say, is history.
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1: Returning to Sudbury from Little Current, Train no. 74 (lead by GP35 5025 and an RS10) pulls into the siding at Nairn to make way for a westbound train lead by C424 4235 and an RS18 still in maroon and grey.
– by Jurgen Kleylein Page 93 • Aug 2012 MRH
Modeling the CP Sudbury, page 1
Photos by the author except where credited otherwise
By 1970 the city of Sudbury had become the nickel capital of the world, as well as producing abundant copper, iron, zinc, silver and gold and other minerals. CP Rail by then moved trainloads of nickel-copper-ferrous ore from scattered mines around the rim of the basin to the huge INCO smelter and Falconbridge Ltd. refinery. The junction at Sudbury increased in importance when the CPR built a “Toronto branch” which joined the mainline just east of the Sudbury yard. The Toronto route began to
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