Canadian Railroads > Rare CP Caboose Collection

1) Medonte 1978
2) Port McNicoll 1976
3) Soo Ont 1978

Bay windows on CP were definitely rare!

Mike Bannon
St Catharines, ON

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Cattle cars in 1978. How long were they used in Canada?

Even if those cattle cars were empty, the stench would probably be awful.
Bob

Nice trio! I really like the 1st one with the stock cars.

The shot of the bay window caboose in the Soo came as a surpise. Never know one ran there.

Ken

I understand the cattle cars were used to haul ties in later years, so that might be what they were being used for then.

Brian

kgmontreal Wrote:
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> The shot of the bay window caboose in the Soo came
> as a surpise. Never know one ran there.
>
> Ken

I too am surprised at this. AFAIK, there were only two Bay Window's and one of them worked the 12th Street yard in Calgary. I am sure that I have a photo of that one in 1978 taken around February. I thought both of them were in the Calgary area at that time.

I know that one of them belongs in the Knowlton private collection south of Calgary.

Rick

A CP bay window caboose was used by the Kelowna BC switcher in the early 1970's, possibly that was the same one that ended up in Calgary.

The white on the cattle cars is probably lime; used to help with the stink. The first is a great and unusual photo.
Roger B