DAR003252

Dominion Atlantic Railway Combine Car No. 3252

Built by Canadian Car and Foundry in 1924, Combine 3252 was an 83 foot heavyweight combined smoking and baggage car with seats for 48 passengers.(1) It was used on the last mixed passenger and freight runs of the DAR when it was retired in 1972.(2) The car was given to George Warden, a retired DAR conductor, for use as a railway museum. Warden had the combine parked on special tracks behind his house on River Street in Kentville. He filled it with photos, artifacts and documents about the DAR and opened it to the public as a private museum. After his death in 1975, his widow offered to give the car and collection to the town of Kentville but was turned down. The Musquodoboit Railway Museum in Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia acquired the car and Warden's collection. His photo collection has been preserved, although the Musquodoboit museum, after years of vandalism and underfunded maintenance, was forced to scrap Combine Car 3252 in May 2021.

Gallery

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  Combine coach No. 3252 at Windsor on October 16, 1965. Note the Windsor Freight Shed in the background.

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  Combine No. 3252 at the Musquodoboit Railway Museum Mar. 14, 2011.

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  End of Combine 3252 at the Musquodoboit Railway Museum Mar. 14, 2011.

References and Footnotes

(1) CPR MP14 Summary of Motive Power and Rolling Stock 1965, p. 28

(2) Musquodoboit Railway Museum

Canadian Trackside Guide 2008, page 3-110

External Links

• Baggage Smoking folio sheet 3100-3299 at CPHA
• Combine 3250-3257 floor plan at CPHA.]
• Baggage & Smoker folio sheet 3250-3257 at CPHA