CPR Service equipment

Boarding cars, etc.

Two views showing both sides of converted heavyweight passenger car. Jim Booth

Converted 40 foot box car.

CP 411719 Cook-Diner-Sleeper lightweight 80' former baggage and express car. St.Luc 9/03/1988 Kermit Geary Jr.

Old mail car as Service equipment. Illegible number. Al Howlett

411513 Service car assigned to Communications Dept. (telegraph/telephone) it seldom moved from its track near
West Toronto diamond. Two views: West Toronto c.1950's Jim Parker
Unlike combooses (combine or combination car and caboose) the cupola was used for observation of line wires.
Note: Penfound Varnish was one of the nearby local industries served by the CPR.

This unique car was another example of how a piece of rolling stock changed rolls over the years.
Built 1911 as First Class coach 395 (ii) it was renumbered 695 in 1912.
In 1947 it became Service car 411513. Scrapped 1968.
West Toronto depot in the background.