Canadian Railroads > Old and Rare Freight Cars

There was a time CN was interesting!

Mike Bannon
St Catharines, ON



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/21/17 18:22 by algoma11.

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What do they have in that tank car? An oil burner to keep it from freezing?

Ray

MOW water car-its lettered on the side. Only ever saw this one?

Mike Bannon
St Catharines, ON

algoma11 Wrote:
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> MOW water car-its lettered on the side. Only ever
> saw this one?

I saw that, but it's the stack I was wondering about.

It had a small oil stove cut into one corner and the whole car covered in spray on insulation.

Mike Bannon
St Catharines, ON

I was told once that CN only ever had 1 tank car, and it was used in MOW service. I used to see it down here in Niagara Falls from time to time on the MOW trains, but I don't know if there was in fact only 1, or what the number was of the one I saw down here.

Ken

hepc46 Wrote:
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> I was told once that CN only ever had 1 tank car,
> and it was used in MOW service. I used to see it
> down here in Niagara Falls from time to time on
> the MOW trains, but I don't know if there was in
> fact only 1, or what the number was of the one I
> saw down here.
>
> Ken

I have shots of others, which I'm going to post in a new thread in case people have left this one behind. I'll cross-reference. Should be July 22, or 23 if I don't beat midnight PST.
Fred

There are still 2 MOW Water cars up in Whitecourt Alberta on the Sangudo Sub just outside Edmonton Ab. I believe they still use them to fight wildfires in the region, with the amount of wooden trestles up there I'm surprised they only have the 2! When I worked out of Whitecourt as a Track Maintainer back in 1997 they had quite a few wild fires that spring, I remember at each siding there were a locomotive and a couple of those water cars just in case!!