DARGRANDPRE

Dominion Atlantic Railway Buffet Observation Parlour Car, Grand Pre

• Built 1889 by Barney and Smith
• 72 feet over couplers
• 65 feet over frame
• six wheel trucks

A sister to Annapolis Royal(1), this car began as the Canadian Pacific sleeper "Ivanhoe". It was renamed "Peninsula" and converted to a buffet observation car for the DAR in 1923 and named "Grand Pre". In May 1946 it was renumbered as 411511 and converted to a crew rest car and stationed on a side track in Yarmouth. It was scrapped in July 1960.

Note: The 1944 CPR MP14 D.A.R. section, it is listed as a seating capacity of 22 people in the main section and 6 in the smoking section with a length of 68'-5"(2) while the 1941 MP 14 gives a length of 65' with capacity of 22 non-smoking and 26 smoking.(3)

Gallery

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  Train No. 98 at Windsor on Sept.10, 1937. No. 2552 is leading the train today. Observation car is most likely the Grand Pré.

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  Grand Pre in front of the Kentville Car Shop circa 1938.

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  DAR Observation Car Grand Pré at Kentville on May 11, 1946.

References and Footnotes

• (1) Gary W. Ness in Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume Two), back cover
• (2) C.P.R. M.P. 14 Motive Power Rosters, 1944, page 40
• (3) 1941 MP14 DAR Section, page 39

External Links

Plan of similar converted Barney & Smith car, Business No. 16