DAR000091

Dominion Atlantic Railway Passenger Van No. 91.

It was originally built as baggage & smoking combine coach No. 32 by James Harris and Company in Saint John, New Brunswick 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 later sold to a construction company in New Minas, Nova Scotia where it was used as a storage building.(4)

Gallery

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  1949 at Yarmouth

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  At Kentville in August 1949, converted passenger car used as caboose on evening trains No. 99 & No. 100.

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