DARANNAPOLISROYAL

Dominion Atlantic Railway Buffet Observation Parlour Car, Annapolis Royal

Built 1889 by Barney and Smith as a sleeping cat
Converted Dec 1923 by Canadian Pacific as Buffet Observation Parlour Car
72 feet over couplers
68'-5" long overall
65 feet over frame
six wheel trucks
Seating capacity: 22 people in the main section and 6 in the smoking section^[1]

A sister to Grand Pre^[2], this car began as the Canadian Pacific sleeper "Parkland", later renamed "Winchester". It was converted to a buffet observation car for the DAR in December 1923 and named "Annapolis Royal" after the town, an important tourism destination for the DAR. It was scrapped in August 1946.^[3]

Gallery

The Flying Bluenose posed at Elderkin Creek between Kentville and New Minas with the Parlour Buffet Observation Car "Annapolis Royal, circa 1924.
Train No. 95 at Kentville on Sept.13, 1937. Observation car is most likely the Annapolis Royal.
Annapolis Royal in Halifax at Ocean Terminal.
Still motion picture film with DAR No. 2552 "Haliburton" at Halifax station with Annapolis Royal, 1939.
Evangeline Herald on the observation car Annapolis Royal at Kentville, March 30, 1946.
Snowplows No. 909 in foreground and No. 911 in back with detail of end of observation car Annapolis Royal at Kentville, March 30, 1946.
DAR Observation Annapolis Royal at Kentville on May 11, 1946.
1920s era model of Annapolis Royal at the restored Wolfville Station.
The sylized platform of the 1920s era model of Annapolis Royal at the restored Wolfville Station.