as it would have been too costly in those days. Many a summer day, I have climb up
the side of the mountain to walk along the old Kettle Valley tracks. These tracks are long gone now, but the roadbed is still there. Oh, how I wished that I had taken
lots of photos of these things pertain- ing to the railroad, as most of them are just very pleasant thoughts now. Since I am a bit older than most, I
have seen a lot of these things. Some Canadians may remember
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this. When I was a kid, a company sold Nabisco Shredded Wheat biscuits. They came 12 to a box. Four on each row, but the best was what was be- tween the rows. Inside the box, pieces of cardboard with a stamped picture of homes. These houses, when we cut then out, made models for our railroad. They were HO gauge and of many dif- ferent designs.
JIMMY VAUGHAN via e-mail
Okanagan Landing memories After reading your article in the De-
cember issue of RMC about Okanagan Landing, very pleasant memories came flying back. I grew up in the Okanagan Valley, lived in Naramata and attended the high school in Penticton; so I do re- member the old Kettle Valley railroad or the Canadian Pacific. We used to go swimming inside of
the barges, as the water was much warmer than diving into the lake. The barges came down the lake to Narama- ta, and picked up the railway cars from the fruit packing house. My mother worked for the packing house, sorting fruit for export. One of my very first jobs was with
the CPR at Penticton, loading ice into the refrigerated cars from the icing platform as the article has shown. If you look into the lake about one
half mile north from Penticton, on the east side of the lake, there rests one of the CPR (Kettle Valley) locomotives. It left the tracks, and ended up in the lake. They never bothered to remove it,
December issue I thought the December 2013 issue
of RMC was fantastic. I found several articles and items of interest that I en- joyed. First, the Perspective column on “Foreign Faces” caught my interest, as I am a fan of British railroads, espe- cially narrow gauge and/or steam. Both the Hunslet side-rod diesel and the 0- 4-4T Dunrobin photos caught my inter- est as something I might want to build a model of some day. The Okanagan Landing diorama ar-
ticle was very interesting, showing fan- tastic modeling of a rail-water scene based on in-depth research on the pro- totype. I also enjoyed the Soo Line coach modeling article by Tom Houle, which contained several handy tips for passenger car modeling in general. Other articles that I’ve made notes
to refer to are the “Removable flat car loads” article by Clark Probst, and the “Making tender coal loads” article by Art VanDeWater. I have made coal loads using a 1″ thick piece of insula-
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