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Dominion Atlantic Railway Combine (Baggage Smoking) No. 32.

No. 32 was built by James Harris and Company in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1887 as a sister car to No. 31 in 1890.(1)

  • Seating Capacity: 40 people
  • 4 wheel trucks.
  • Length: 57'-2" or 57'-0"(2)

The Canadian Car & Foundry - Amherst Builders photo gives a date of 1923 which is likely the date when the cupola was added during a major rebuild.

The car was re-numbered and converted to Van No. 91 in June 1941.(1) It was eventually sold for scrap to a construction company in New Minas, Nova Scotia where it was used as a storage building.(3)

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References and Footnotes

(1) Dominion Atlantic Railway Chronology of Passenger Car Purchases Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 A10 Vol. 55-4

(2) C.P.R. M.P. 14 Motive Power Rosters, 1941, p. 38

(3) Harold Jenkins letter to Scotia Railway Society May 10, 1958, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management RG28 s Vol. 186

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