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Dominion Atlantic Railway Mail Car No. 3702
A early CPR wooden railway postal car, built in 1882, No. 3702 was 49'-10" over end sills.(1) The car appears to disappear from CPR equipment lists by 1924,(2) possibly after damage in a 1920s wreck photographed on the DAR at the Oak Island Ballast Pit.
Gallery
Locomotive No. 32 and Postal Car 3702 in wreck at the Oak Island Ballast Pit near Kentville, circa 1920.
References and Footnotes
(1) C.P.R. M.P. 14 Motive Power Rosters, CPR M.P. 14 Motive Power Roster 1922, p. 2.
(2) January 1, 1924 CPR Motive Power Roster M.P. 14 (passenger only) at CPHA, p. 54.
