Dominion Atlantic Railway Boxcars

A train of apple laden DAR boxcars 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 were lettered for DAR but had CPR style numbers 69000 range.

However from the mid 1930s onward, the DAR fleet of wooden boxcars was gradually replaced by CPR boxcars, a process that was complete by the 1950s except for Maintainence of Way cars. While most of the CPR cars were not officiallty owned by the DAR, this category will still identify all the boxcars it can that have been observed on the DAR system.

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