Dear HO Modelers:

We have just taken delivery of our Special Run of Wheat Board of Canada 4 Bay Cylindrical Hoppers with CP Restencil Marks.

Here are the Photo's:

Please note the removal of some of the data under the restenciled CPWX road numbers.

These are not CN assigned cars.

In the 1990s CN became a privately held corporation (no longer owned by the Government of Canada). At that time all of the Wheat Board of Canada's cars were assigned to CN. A few years later the Wheat Board of Canada decided to reasign a significant portion of their fleet to CP Rail when it was felt CN was not doing their best to assure timely delivery of cars to the Port of Vancouver on the west coast. Thus, these 6 cars will reflect the way these cars look today.

Also note the cars will have some of the weight information removed from the cars. This occurred when the US Railway Industry discovered a safely issue resulted from the car having too much weight related information on the side of the car (tare weight, metric weight, and imperial weight). In essence for safety considerations it was decided to remove some of the conflicting weight data to reduce the risk of cars being improperly totaled by American railroad crews who were not familiar with the Metric information on the sides of the cars.