Monday, November 10, 2008

An Interesting Photo

I bought this slide a while ago on eBay. It has a very interesting subject - a Canadian Pacific car on the Reversing Falls bridge in Saint John on July 22, 1967. The seller labelled it as a transfer caboose, and it may well be that. Does anyone know what kind of car CP 402472 was? There is small lettering on the car that says "cabin car".

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3 comments:

drc35ca said...

It looks to be the car that usually was connected to the work crane with the boom hanging over the low end!??

Eric said...

Hi Steve, I also saw this photo, and wondered about that car. It looks to have enough deck area for a very small crane, or perhaps a pile driver, as a boom car.

Canadian Train Geek said...

I was thinking it was a boom car for a crane too, but there isn't a lot of room on the deck. I agree it could be one. :)