"Big Otis" Wood Gypsum Cars.

Transcribed from the original equipment order. ^[1]

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY - MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT - MONTREAL
Mr. R. A. Pyne, R. Preston, J. Burns - July 25th, 1930
BULLETIN OF NEW CAR EQUIPMENT - FREIGHT AND PASSENGER

Equipment Order: 2620
No. of Cars: 250
Class: Coal Cars
Numbers: 350975-351224
Builder: Canadian Car & Foundry Companay
Length (Over End Frame): 47' 0-3/4"
Size of Axles: 6 x 11"

SPECIAL FEATURES AND REMARKS

Brakes, Air: W.A.B. (Westinghouse) K.D. 1012
Brakes, Hand: Peacock #210
Couplers: A.R.A. Type "D" 6 x 8"
Draft Gear: Minor Friction, Class A-18-S-2
Side Bearings: Stucki #5006
Trucks: Dalman Type Cast Steel
Truck Bolsters: Dalman Cast Steel
Wheels: 33" Rolled Steel

Doors: 16 Drop Bottom

Nominal Capacity: 150,000 lbs.
Load Limit: 152,300 lbs.
Weight: 53200 lbs.
Entered Service: April and May 1930

H. B. Bowen
Chief of Motive Power and Rolling Stock

Gallery of Big Otis Gypsum Cars on the DAR

No. 351091 in service as a gypsum car.
No. 351091 in service as a gypsum car. End detail.
No. 351091 in service as a gypsum car. End detail.
No. 351091 in service as a gypsum car. Number detail.
No. 351091 in service as a gypsum car. Inside detail.
No. 351091 in service as a gypsum car. Frame detail.
No. 351091 in service as a gypsum car. Frame detail.
No. 351091 in service as a gypsum car. Frame detail.
No. 351091 in service as a gypsum car. Truck detail.
No. 351091 in service as a gypsum car. Truck detail.
No. 351162 and No.350699 gypsum cars crossing the Avon River at Windsor, circa 1948 pulled by locomotives No. 1018 and 999.
Wooden Gypsum car No. 350505 being scrapped at Kentville Railyard on April 3, 1964. Tool car No. 403769 can be seen behind.
No. 350834 in service as a gypsum car.
A gypsum train near Hantsport, pre-1959.
S-3's No. 6560 & 6561 pulling plaster train near Windsor on August 28, 1956.
S-3's No. 6560 & 6561 pulling plaster train near Windsor on August 28, 1956.
Nos. 6560 & 6561 leading gypsum train passing Halifax mixed train at Windsor Water Tower on August 28, 1956.
No. 8135 wayfreight waiting for empty plaster train to pass in Windsor in August 1959. Note boxcar No. 259118.
No. 8135, No. 8133 with a train of Big Otis gypsum cars at Windsor Station, 1960.