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File:Windsor 1954 1.jpg|[[Train No. 98]], showing coach [[DAR001427|No. 1427]] and Observation car [[DAR006616|No. 6616]] leaving Windsor. [[Train No. 1]] for Truro on next track at Windsor on July 3, 1954. | File:Windsor 1954 1.jpg|[[Train No. 98]], showing coach [[DAR001427|No. 1427]] and Observation car [[DAR006616|No. 6616]] leaving Windsor. [[Train No. 1]] for Truro on next track at Windsor on July 3, 1954. | ||
Image:DAR006016 on Train No. 98.jpg|[[Train No. 98]] with [[DAR006616|No. 6616]], leaving [[Windsor]] for [[Halifax]]. [[Train No. 1]] on adjoining track is [[Truro]] bound, July 3, 1954. | Image:DAR006016 on Train No. 98.jpg|[[Train No. 98]] with [[DAR006616|No. 6616]], leaving [[Windsor]] for [[Halifax]]. [[Train No. 1]] on adjoining track is [[Truro]] bound, July 3, 1954. | ||
| − | Image:Trains No. 1-97-98 b.jpg|[[Train No. 97]] at left, Observation car [[DAR006616|No. 6616]] on [[Train No. 98]], [[DAR001548|coach no. 1548]], and [[DAR001544|1544]] from [[Train No. 1]] at right on | + | Image:Trains No. 1-97-98 b.jpg|[[Train No. 97]] at left, Observation car [[DAR006616|No. 6616]] on [[Train No. 98]], [[DAR001548|coach no. 1548]], and [[DAR001544|1544]] from [[Train No. 1]] at right on JulyFile:Inspection Car Windsor Station.jpg|DAR [[:Category:Inspection_Cars|Inspection Car M-107]] and the [[DAR006616|Buffet-Parlour car No. 6616]] at the [[Windsor Station]], circa 1956. 3, 1954 at [[Windsor]]. |
| + | File:Inspection Car Windsor Station.jpg|DAR [[:Category:Inspection_Cars|Inspection Car M-107]] and the [[DAR006616|Buffet-Parlour car No. 6616]] at the [[Windsor Station]], circa 1956. | ||
File:CP 6616 buffet parlor.jpg|[[DAR006616|6616]] at [[Kentville]]. | File:CP 6616 buffet parlor.jpg|[[DAR006616|6616]] at [[Kentville]]. | ||
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Dominion Atlantic Railway Observation Parlour Car No. 6616
This car was one of several modernized buffet-observation-parlor cars in the 6611-6619 range assigned to the DAR to replace the older wooden buffet observation cars like Grand Pre and Annapolis Royal. Other cars in the same class that served on the DAR were No. 6613 and No. 6614. No. 6616 was built in November 1913 at the CPR's Angus shops as the wooden buffer-parlor-observation car "Madawaska". The name was replaced by the number 6616 in 1919. The car was modernized in 1929-1930 with steel sheathing and ice-activated air conditioning.[1] It was 78 feet long (over the sills), ran on six wheel trucks and carried 22 parlor passengers[2] with a 12 seat dining section and a 6 person smoking room and a weight of 185,000 lbs.[3] A detailed account of a trip aboard 6616 from Yarmouth to Halifax in 1956 was written by Lorne Perry in the Canadian Rail Passenger Review in 2000.[4]
Note: Some photographs misidentify this car as 6016. CPR did not have an observation car 6016 but did have a car 6616 in regular service on the DAR.
Gallery
Loading passengers for Train No. 98, locomotive No. 1111 in front, on Digby Wharf on July 3, 1954. Observation car is No. 6616.
Train No. 98 and observation car No. 6616 from Yarmouth to Halifax at the Kentville Station on July 3, 1954.
Train No. 98, showing coach No. 1427 and Observation car No. 6616 leaving Windsor. Train No. 1 for Truro on next track at Windsor on July 3, 1954.
Train No. 98 with No. 6616, leaving Windsor for Halifax. Train No. 1 on adjoining track is Truro bound, July 3, 1954.
DAR Inspection Car M-107 and the Buffet-Parlour car No. 6616 at the Windsor Station, circa 1956. 3, 1954 at Windsor.
DAR Inspection Car M-107 and the Buffet-Parlour car No. 6616 at the Windsor Station, circa 1956.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Lorne Perry, "The Back Porch", Canadian Rail Passenger Review, No. 3 (2000), p. 21
- ↑ CPR M.P. 14 Roster, 1947, page 35.
- ↑ CPR M.P. 14 Roster, 1955, page 27.
- ↑ Lorne Perry, "The Back Porch", Canadian Rail Passenger Review, No. 3 (2000), p. 21
