CPR Rolling Stock

Freight car equipment

All photos taken in Toronto in early 1950's by Jim Parker unless otherwise credited.

CP 176743 36 foot 45 ton capacity 2448 cubic foot, 5 foot door, steel frame wooden box car. Leaside (Toronto)

CP 186581 36 foot 45 ton capacity 2448 cubic foot, 5 foot door, steel frame wooden box car. Built 1/1913. Leaside

CP 209146 36 foot 45 ton capacity 2448 cubic foot, 5 foot door, steel frame wooden box car built December 1912.
14,000 of these box cars were built 1909-14. Toronto c.1952

CP 236434 a 40 foot long 60 ton capacity 6 foot wide door 3098 cu.ft. steel frame wooden box car built January 1921.
Over 4,500 built 1920-21 Leaside, Toronto c.1951

C.P. 240586 40 foot 60 ton steel box car with 5 foot door 3005 cu.ft 7,500 built 1929-30

C.P. 252240 40 foot 60 ton steel 3715 cu.ft. box car with 6 foot door. 4000 cars built 1941-46 Stencil next to door reads:
TO BE USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR NEWSPRINT PAPER FLOUR AND SUGAR OR HIGH CLASS MERCHANDISE

CP 254532 steel 40 foot 3900 cubic foot 6 ft door box car built 1947. West Toronto freight shed. ca.1950's

C.P. 268911 40 foot 60 ton 3900 cu.ft. 6 ft door steel box car built by Pullman-Standard in USA 7/52
International of Maine Division cars could not be used in Canadian domestic service.

C.P. 273365 a 36 foot steel underframe stock car, one of thousands built 1909-13.
West Toronto at the stockyards on the "Klondike" track where manure was cleaned out of stock cars.
Note Swift Canadian meat plant in the background.

CP 289760 steel refrigerator (reefer) car with underslung charcoal heater. Built c.1940. Toronto c.1954.

CP 299690 40 foot 40 ton 3615 cu.ft steel frame wooden automobile box car. Thousands built 1921-24;
soon those remaining were to be renumbered in 1955 into a new series 40000-41046 (1047 cars)
and reclassified as plain box cars having been replaced by new steel auto boxes.
New automobiles travelled in these cars in the years before multilevel flatcars.
Note the staggered doors of different sizes (13.5 ft.) to permit autos being driven inside.
Toronto c.1954.