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Image:DAR91a.jpg|At [[Kentville]] in August 1949, converted passenger car used as caboose on evening trains [[Train No. 99|No. 99]] & [[Train No. 100|No. 100]]. | Image:DAR91a.jpg|At [[Kentville]] in August 1949, converted passenger car used as caboose on evening trains [[Train No. 99|No. 99]] & [[Train No. 100|No. 100]]. | ||
Image:Cn1.jpg|No. 91 at [[Halifax]], circa 1954. | Image:Cn1.jpg|No. 91 at [[Halifax]], circa 1954. | ||
| + | Image:DAR000091 Drawing.jpg|Drawing of [[DAR000091|No. 91]] at New Minas NS in September of 1964. | ||
| + | Image:DAR000091 Brass Doorknob Exterior.jpg|A solid brass doorknob from the exterior end door of [[DAR000091|No. 91]]. | ||
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Revision as of 22:51, 19 June 2010
Dominion Atlantic Railway Passenger Van No. 91.
It was originally built as baggage & smoking combine coach No. 32 by James Harris & Co. in 1887 as a sister car to No. 31 in 1890.(1) A cupola was added in Amherst in 1923.(2)
The car was re-numbered and converted to Van No. 92 in June 1941.(1) It was used on the rear end of Train No. 99 & Train No. 100, night train with sleeper, coach or freight cars.(3)
It was eventually used as a fuel conversion car in Kentville and was {retired in January of 1955 (5)} later sold to a construction company in New Minas, Nova Scotia where it was used as a storage building.(4)
Gallery
With cupola just added, still as No. 32 in 1923.
- DAR000091b.jpg
In 1949 at Yarmouth
No. 91 at Halifax, circa 1954.
Drawing of No. 91 at New Minas NS in September of 1964.
A solid brass doorknob from the exterior end door of No. 91.
References and Footnotes
- (1) Dominion Atlantic Railway Chronology of Passenger Car Purchases Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 A10 Vol. 55-4
- (2) Canadian Car & Foundry - Amherst Builders photo, 1923
- (3) Jeff Pinchbeck, CPHA, email note 2008-06-06
- (4) Harold Jenkins letter to Scotia Railway Society May 10, 1958, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management RG28 s Vol. 186
- (5) Jim O'Donnell note on the DARDPI Forum, 2010-03-19.
