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DAR006616
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 air conditioning.[1] It was 78 feet long (over the sills) and carried 22 parlor passengers and ran on six wheel trucks.[2] 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.[3]
Gallery
Loading passengers for Train No. 98, locomotive No. 1111 in front, on Digby Wharf on July 3, 1954. Observation car is No. 6016.
Train No. 98 and observation car No. 6016 from Yarmouth to Halifax at the Kentville Station on July 3, 1954.
July 3, 1954. Train No. 98 with observation buffet parlor car No. 6016, leaving Windsor for Halifax. Train No. 1 on adjoining track is connection to Truro with the Windsor Water Tower in the background.
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
- ↑ Lorne Perry, "The Back Porch", Canadian Rail Passenger Review, No. 3 (2000), p. 21
