Canadian Pacific Railway

Automotive equipment

The CPR's self-propelled cars were listed under Passenger Car Equipment as Automotive Equipment.
Eight were built by EMC with 400 hp gas engines which they kept until retired (except 9006) unlike most railways.
One car (9002) was a storage battery car that was converted into a non-powered trailer. 9006 was re-engined in 1935
with a Harland-Wolff 6 cylinder 600 hp diesel pre-dating diesel unit 7000 usually thought of as the first CPR diesel.

Early diesels

 

9003 (ex 46) Combine 72' 50 seats 70 ton EMC 444/St.Louis Car 1537 6/1930 (Two car order 9003, 9004).
Frederickton, NB August 1957 Parsons/L B Chapman Collection

Note: 9003 was the last gas car to operate (anywhere) finishing up Saturday, April 28, 1962 with trailer coach 3051.
A spare car 9005 was stored also. Both were scrapped as were all other gas cars. Gas fuelled to the end! .

Diagram

9003 #109 on the wye arriving from Fredericton Jct. 5114 moving up with the freight train to Chipman NB 3/15/1957
Ken MacDonald/L B Chapman Collection

9005 (ex 48) Combine 72' 50 seats 71 ton (Two car order 9005, 9006) EMC/Ottawa Car 8/1931
Fredericton, NB 1959 L B Chapman Collection

9008 leaving Mc.Adam, New Brunswick 9/1957 Jim Buckley
72 foot combine 25 seats 76 tons EMC/Ottawa Car 1/1932 Two car order 9007, 9008
That smoke is likely from a steam locomotive, not the gas car!

9008 same place, different date (August 1957) no smoke! L.B.Chapman Collection

9008 and wooden coach off #155 from Chipman to Woodstock, sitting at North Devon NB 7/05/1952
Ken MacDonald/L B Chapman Collection

9009 all mail and express car. No caption or date for these two photos. Believed to be Winnipeg. Scrapped 1950.
Public Archives Canada

9009 with two car train.

 

London Division . 9002 9004 9007

 

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