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DAR004626
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Dominion Atlantic Railway Fruit Express Car No. 4626.
One of CPR's fruit express "blower cars" converted to baggage express car service on passenger trains. These were wooden express fruit cars with steel centre sills an steel ends measuring 60' 0" long with a tare weight of 104,000 lbs and riding on 6 wheels trucks. (1)
Gallery
No. 2526 shunts Train No. 98 in reverse past Fruit Express car No. 4626 at Windsor preparing to leave for Halifax in late afternoon on July 3, 1954.
DAR Inspection Car M-107 at Windsor passing Fruit Express car No. 4626 in the Windsor Railyard with the Windsor Water Tower in background, circa July 1954.
References and Footnotes
- C.P.R. M.P. 14 Motive Power Rosters, 1938 p. 29