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ACR 415-432 ex-Canadian Pacific CoachesExterior views:
415 at the Minnesota Transportation Museum, 2000 CHARLES BARTHOLD
416 at the Minnesota Transportation Museum, 2000 CHARLES BARTHOLD
417 at the Minnesota Transportation Museum, 2000 CHARLES BARTHOLD
418 at Steelton, Nov, 16, 1974 TED ELLIS
423 at the Minnesota Transportation Museum, 2000 CHARLES BARTHOLD
424 at the Minnesota Transportation Museum, 2000 CHARLES BARTHOLD
425 at Frater, 1983 SEAN TROFIN
427 at the Minnesota Transportation Museum, 2000 CHARLES BARTHOLD
430 at the Minnesota Transportation Museum, 2000 CHARLES BARTHOLD
431 at the Minnesota Transportation Museum, 2000 CHARLES BARTHOLD
432 at the Minnesota Transportation Museum, 2000 CHARLES BARTHOLD
Side view of vestibule CHARLES BARTHOLD
End view of vestibule passageway and door CHARLES BARTHOLD
Non-vestibule end CHARLES BARTHOLD
Interior seating:
416 (red seats) CHARLES BARTHOLD
417 (red seats) CHARLES BARTHOLD
423 (red seats) CHARLES BARTHOLD
424 (golden-yellow seats) CHARLES BARTHOLD
430 (red seats) CHARLES BARTHOLD
431 (brown seats) CHARLES BARTHOLD
432 (brown seats) CHARLES BARTHOLD
Interior dividers:
Type I - solid (from coach 416) CHARLES BARTHOLD
Type II - glass (from coach 431) CHARLES BARTHOLD
Underbody:
Truck - straight equalizer, inside swing hanger truck with truck-mounted clasp brakes CHARLES BARTHOLD
Truck - angled view CHARLES BARTHOLD
Brake Valves CHARLES BARTHOLD
Axle-Driven Generator from coach 431CHARLES BARTHOLD
Air Conditioning compressor unit from coach 416CHARLES BARTHOLD
With the Agawa Canyon Tour Train growing in popularity, the Algoma Central needed to replace their aging fleet of passenger cars, all built in the years before the first world war. So beginning in 1969 18 coaches were acquired from Canadian Pacific. They are all from CP 2200 series of lightweight steel coaches.
There are two variations, Type I (ACR 415-420, CPR 2200-2234?) and Type II (ACR 421-432, CPR 2235?-2299). Type I cars were built in 1947 and have solid interior dividers with round windows after the first sixteen seats, Transcold Corp. diesel-powered Air Conditioning unit. Type II coaches were built in 1949 and have a larger axle generator, glass partitions, and Frigidaire electrically powered AC. Both car variations have 4 restrooms, 4 escape windows, GSI straight equalizer trucks with inside swing hangers and clasp brakes and steam heating.
Most cars have coils springs like those in the detail shots of trucks above. However, a couple of cars have leaf spring trucks, shown clearly in the photo of 417 and 418 above. See the chart for individual details.
Number Seat Colour Window Shades* Truck Springs Builder CP Number Paint(Final) 415 gold ? ? NSC 2233 no bear 416 red pink coil NSC 2227 bear 417 red green leaf NSC 2205 bear 418 ? ? leaf NSC 2213 no bear 419 ? ? ? NSC 2209 ? 420 ? ? coil NSC 2219 bear 421 red green coil CCF 2254 no bear 422 brown ? coil CCF 2244 bear 423 red grey coil CCF 2265 bear - still painted maroon/grey in 1978 424 gold black ? CCF 2251 bear 425 red ? coil CCF 2268 bear 426 red green coil CCF 2255 bear 427 red ? coil CCF 2295 bear 428 red green coil CCF 2277 bear 429 olive ? coil CCF 2237 bear 430 red black coil CCF 2273 bear 431 brown grey ? CCF 2262 bear 432 brown black ? CCF 2276 bear*window shades are all a pale white colour on the outside, but the colour of the shades on the side facing the interior of the car tends to vary.
Most of these cars came painted in CP maroon-red with black roofs and some silver with a thick dark red name stripe over the windows to match stainless steel cars. At first cars were repainted into the ACR's maroon and grey scheme with the legend "AGAWA-CANYON-TOUR" on the side below the windows, but were eventually all painted silver with red name boards and belt stripes, starting in 1974. At first cars were painted with the Agawa Canyon Tour legend (see photo of 418 above) but soon cars were painted with a black bear and its paw prints (see 427 above). Some (but not all) of the cars with the Agawa Canyon Tour lettering had the bear added later and so for some time carried the lettering and the bear. Eventually the tour lettering was remnoved from these cars. For example, I have seen early photographs of 416 with the Agawa Canyon Tour lettering, but the photo above shows 416 with the black bear on its side. 415 and 421 have nothing on the lower sides, so they probably had the Agawa Canyon Tour lettering. The chart above shows the final paint scheme applied to the coaches.
In 1998, the last six of these cars (421,422,425,426,428,429) were sold to the Chippewa Valley
Railroad Photos of the ACR coaches on the CVRX
ACR 415-417, 423, 424, 427, 430-432 were auctioned at the Minnesota Transportation museum at the
end of May 2001. No information on where they were before they came to the Museum, or when.
Resin models of the Canadian Pacific 2200 coaches are produced by
Norwest Kits & Castings.
Unfortunately, there are no decals currently available for the ACR's cars.
(Norwest Catalogue)
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