As a smaller regional railway running through mostly undeveloped wilderness territory, the Algoma Central Railway had an interesting passenger car fleet consisting of secondhand equipment from multiple other roads.

With a regular passenger service running over the 295 mile length of the railway as well as a popular and well-patronized tourist train to a railway-developed park in the scenic Agawa Canyon (only accessible by rail), there was a pretty large and varied collection of coach cars on the roster.

One of the interesting challenges of modeling a prototype railroad, particularly a lower profile non-Class I, is correctly modeling the rolling stock of the railway.

The Algoma Central Railway ran through almost 300 miles of pure wilderness in the northern part of the Canadian province of Ontario, serving primarily mining and forestry industries and a large steel mill at the southern terminus of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

I've started a new series on my Algoma Central modeling blog which will consist of several posts/mini-articles over the next month or so about various aspects of the operations on this northern Ontario railway.

Fans of the ACR should enjoy this series, or if you even just have a passing interest in the operations of a regional wilderness railway, come give it a peak.

Introductory Post (includes an overview map of the area for orientation)

This is a lumber load I built for my railway.

To me the type of load that is just a solid block with printing on it to represent the layers of lumber bundles just doesn't cut it, as it just looks like a 2D block and the graphics line up too cleanly.