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This end door baggage express car was one of a four cars ordered by Canadian Pacific Railway in 1930, under E.O. 2599. These cars are the last order of arched roof passenger equipment the railway had built for its operations. This car was scheduled for termination back in 1980. But when the draft gear was torn out of the "a" end of the car. It was sent up to Weston Shops where it became star car 1004. Star cars where used in captive service within the Weston Shops Area. In its hay day these cars were used more for movements of luxury automobiles, the King & Queens carriages, and for traveling plays and shows carrying their props and other bulky stage material. These photo's both taken by Brain Schuff, at Weston Shops Stores, on May 6th, 1984. In Winnipeg, Manitoba.

These photographs are of a unique flat car one of 8 cars built by Canadian Pacific in 1964, from B&E cars built in 1929 & 1931. All cars measure 83' 10" long and have a wooden planked decking, and have 32 stack pockets a side riding on 6 wheel commonwealth passenger trucks.
CP 313003 is one of the 8 flat cars re-blt in 1964 under E.O. 6465 from baggage express cars built under E.O. 2524 and E.O. 2699, the number series was 313000 to 313007. These cars where built to handle long dimensional loads not exceeding 145,000 lbs. In 1966 cars 313001 & 313006 were converted to 418 series non-revenue equipment. Also these cars handled some of the first packaged lumber movements on the railway. The photographs above taken in Winnipeg on May 6th, 1984 by Brain Schuff. In an area of the Winnipeg Terminal known to C.P.R. employee's as Disneyland, account of the poor track planning in this area. You will note that the trucks under the car are top equalized six wheel commonwealth. Trucks commonly used under Canadian Pacific passenger cars constructed after January 1st, 1926.

This photograph's photographer is unknown from the Brian Schuff collection. Shows a unknown Canadian Pacific SW-1200RS & FB-1 B unit crossing the Humber River with a dimensional shipment mounted on a 313000 series flat car. Photo dated October, 1967.

This photograph of an ex Canadian Pacific Railway Mikado 2-8-2 tender.
Is being used as a water tender for the number 2 auxiliary in Winnipeg till the end of the late 1970's. This photo taken by Fred Shannon in February of 1973 at Canadian Pacific's Winnipeg Coach Yard. The railway used a large number of these old steam locomotive tenders for water cars all over the system.

These two photographs shot in Winnipeg at the old South Side Yard Office back in July 29, 1986. Tenders 415615 and 415616 departed the next day from Winnipeg on the Selkirk Turn for there final movement as so many other vintage railway cars before. To the Mandak Material Processing yard in Selkirk Manitoba where they were scrapped. Both these photo's are taken by John Morris.
Both of these water tenders were maintained at the St. Luc car shops in Montreal Quebec. But the tender 415615 was once used on the St. Johns auxiliary for many years.

These Fred Shannon photos were taken outside the Paint Shop at Weston Shops Winnipeg in the mid 1970's. She was re-built in 1971 from retired CFB 16-4 CP 4452. She was one of 11 B-units and one RS unit converted by Canadian Pacific Railway. To work in conjunction with the mid-train slave units. For movements of coal, grain, potash, and sulphur between Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and Vancouver, British Columbia.
The second photo of CPR Robot-8 shows the 5 inch and 6 inch black and white striping on the rear end of the Robot. Now on the front end of these Robots the striping was blue and white. All of these robots were pulled from service when cracks started to show up in the units truck side frames.

This is one of ten cars known as "Time Cars" to passenger train crews operating between Calgary, Alta. and Vancouver, B.C. These are the last cars to carry the 4900 series numbers of Through Baggage Cars. They were re-built from 50 ton 29000-29118 Through Baggage Cars in 1947. Which them selves where re-built from 221000-228000 series box cars in 1937. They got the name "Time Cars" from the weekly issue of Time Magazine which they regularly carried from Calgary to Vancouver along with the other 3rd class mail.

This photo is of Star car 52, ex Rules Instruction Car 52, ex GRAND COULEE she was built in 1928 as Grand Series Sleeper with 14 single bedrooms. These cars ran almost exclusively in eastern Canada. On over night trains between Montreal and Toronto, and Toronto and Ottawa. All together there were 10 cars in total, most of these cars where upgraded in the early 1950's. And later became non-revenue cars both in work train service and as Rules and Instruction Cars.

This Fred Shannon photo taken in the RX Yard behind the South Hump Control Cabin in June 1993. This sleeping car named TRAPPER an ex Pullman Standard built 8-1-2 she was one of five cars the Canadian Pacific Railway leased from Pullman for use on the CPR/SOO Mountaineer. This car was built in 1929, and was under lease to the CPR till 1949, when CPR became the owner. But the CPR leased her back to Pullman till 1956. All of her sister cars in this series became non-revenue equipment by 1958. She is the only car of her class that was saved from the cutters torch and was held in Winnipeg till she could be moved to her new home in Lethbridge Alberta.

This Stephen Bilik Photo taken in 1984 at CPR's Marconi Yard north of the St. Boniface Yard . This ex sleeping car VALIOUS an 8-4 "V" Class Sleeper (the 2nd car to carry this name) the 1st was destroyed in 1944. She was re-built from a 10 compartment sleeper in the same year. This car also received the large single windows in the section sleeping area of the car in stead of the more common paired window units. The Canadian Pacific had a total of 14 "V" Class Sleepers in all. They ran on over-night trains in the east. And ran on over-night trains between Winnipeg Manitoba and Regina & Moose Jaw Saskatchewan. In this photo you will note that the railway closed off and removed the A/C Air Duct above the last sleeping section of this car. Also note that the drop equalized commonwealth trucks have two stabilizing anchors mounted on the top of the truck sideframes. This is the only car of this series with trucks modified in this way. For that matter its the only passenger car on the CPR with this modification. This car was sent to Mandak in Sekirk Mb. shortly after this photo was taken and was scrapped.