Dominion Atlantic Railway Boxcars

A train of apple laden DAR boxcars with No. 1322 and No. 1288 in Halifax 1925.

The DAR began with a fleet of 36 foot wooden boxcars numbered in the 1200 and 1300 range. It also acquired a few 36 foot outside braced Folwer boxcars lettered for DAR with 1400 numbers. Some DAR wooden boxcars specially designed for apple service were lettered for DAR but had CPR style numbers in the 69750-69998 range.

From the mid 1930s onward, the DAR fleet of wooden boxcars was gradually replaced by CPR boxcars, with the last DAR revenue boxcar, No. 1329 scrapped by 1944, leaving a few DAR-lettered maintenance of way boxcars. While most of the CPR cars were not officially owned by the DAR, this category will still identify all the boxcars it can that have been observed on the DAR system.

External Links

• http://www.nakina.net/cp/cp0.html - Earlier DAR/CPR boxcars
• http://www.nakina.net/cp/cp2.html - Later CPR boxcars