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CPR originally referred to its passenger cars used by officials as Official Cars.
Eventually, as Business Cars (BC for short) but never as "private cars". Too grandiose!
Employees on the other hand always called them just that; private cars!


Named business cars (circa 1950's) were assigned to General Manager and above.
Numbered cars to General Superintendent and below.

Note: Many cars renamed over the years as new cars acquired or for other reasons such as reassignment.

 

Built Barney and Smith, Dayton, OH 10-1 sleeping car 07/1890
Major rebuild and conversion Angus Business Car NEW BRUNSWICK 10/1910
Renamed Business Car LAURENTIAN 11/1916
Renamed Business Car ONTARIO 03/1918
Renamed Business Car LAURENTIAN 12/1918
Renamed Business Car SELKIRK 03/1923
Renamed Business Car BRITISH COLUMBIA 05/1925
Numbered Business Car 16 12/1928
Redesignated Business Car 16 04/1951
Retired and sold West Coast Railway Association 04/1963

 

4th Business Car named British Columbia Nov. 1928-1945 and 1947-1952 re# 19 (2nd).

Built CPR Angus EO 2440 Business Car BRITISH COLUMBIA 11/1928
Renamed Business Car RUPERTLAND 01/1946
Renamed Business Car CHAMPLAIN 02/1946
Renamed Business Car BRITISH COLUMBIA 09/1947
Numbered Business Car 19 02/1952
Withdrawn from service   01/1983
Retired and acquired by the
BC Trust for Cranbrook Ry. Museum 06/1983
Officially presented and renamed BRITISH COLUMBIA 11/1984

 

British Columbia one of three car order built November 1928
Also, Ontario and Algoma

Former CP 19 (nee British Columbia) preserved 1983 The Canadian Museum of Rail Travel, Cranbrook, BC

"BC" Killarney (3rd) 73'2" 88 tons

Built Pullman Company Private Car of Henry Flagler FEC WHITEHALL 07/1916
Acquired by CPR on EO 1623   01/1918
Interior modified Business Car KILLARNEY 02/1918
Redesignated Business Car KILLARNEY 04/1951
Air-conditioned ice system Angus   03/1953
Assigned IDP code number 71* * not so painted until AEI 1999 1958
Converted to mechanical AC   late 1960's
Assigned Royal Canadian Pacific   1998
Withdrawn from service after 101 years on CPR 2019
Oldest passenger car in service on a Class 1 railroad.  

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Lacombe sitting on business car spur at west end of Union Station, Toronto. July 19,1995.

LACOMBE in GYO spur at Toronto Yard. 3/24/1982
Converted April 1943 from compartment sleeper Glen Roy built 1921.

Mount Royal John Street Coach Yard. 5/30/1969.

Later in October 1969 it was renamed Ontario by Vice-President, Eastern Region (HQ: Toronto)
Restored to Mount Royal 9/06/1989.

Mount Stephen Built 12/1926. The Glen August 19, 1977 Coo/West Collection/J.Bryce Lee

Floor plan Mount Stephen

History

Royal Canadian Pacific
and other heritage equipment.


Ontario brings up the rear of #11 The Canadian leaving West Toronto Depot 6/16/1977 A.W.Mooney

It is a short six car off-season consist (with single unit 4066) that will shortly change adding a Park car
which will necessitate marshalling a business car ahead of the baggage car next to the power.

Strathcona (3rd) Brandon, Manitoba. November 1976
Lawrence Stuckey/Dale Wilson Collection

Floor plan Strathcona: 3rd also Mount Royal
includes side elevation.


Floor plan Strathcona: 2nd Built May 1927


VAN HORNE built new May 1927.


Numbered cars

Business Car 3. Double end open observation platforms were only on older business cars.
Regina, SK 1955 CPR/Yves St-Hilaire Collection

Built by CPR Hochelaga on EO 287.
Business Car MANITOBA 07/1900
Renamed and designated as BusinessCar ASSINIBOINE 04/1917
Renamed as Business Car CHAMPLAIN 07/1919
Renamed as Business Car CARSELAND 05/1930
Numbered and designated as Business Car No 3 09/1931
Exterior was changed from varnished mahogany to Tuscan red after 08/1933
Damaged by fire and was withdrawn from service 08/1957
  retired and dismantled 02/1958

EO = Equipment Order

Older car 7 (ex DAR Nova Scotia 1915 nee Buffet-Dining Sanspareil) Built Pullman Palace Car 1896.

John Street Coach Yard December 1963 newly acquired by UCRS. James A. Brown

Built Pullman Palace Car Co. Buffet-Dining car SANSPAREIL 1896
DAR acquired by CPR   06/1911
Converted to parlor car DAR SANSPAREIL 08/1913
Converted to business car DAR NOVA SCOTIA 11/1915
Interior modified Angus   01/1941
Numbered CPR 7   04/1958
Withdrawn from service   12/1963
Sold Upper Canada Ry. Soc. UCRS NOVA SCOTIA 01/1964
Sold London and Middlesex ... ... Historical Society 1969
Sold Ossawippi Express ........ ... Dining Cars. Orillia, ON 12/1973
Sold new owner using same business name. Business falied 2010. Seized by City. Transferred Toronto Railway Museum 2012

 

BC 7 (ex Algoma 2nd) Sudbury 6/1978

Built CPR Angus EO 2440 Business Car ALGOMA 12/1928
Assigned IDP code 81 not so painted 1958
Numbered as Business Car 7 08/1969
Withdrawn from service   08/1982
Retired and sold private 9 miles north of Uxbridge, ON 06/1983
Resold privately same location. 11/1987

BC 9 in Saint John, NB. 1976 Digital restoration by Gordon Kennedy.

Business Car 9 (1st); 8/1929 ex Alberta (3rd), 7/1919 ex Champlain (2nd), 3/1910 ex Nanoose (1st),
4/1909 ex Brunswick. 8/1907 nee 12-1 sleeper St. Lawrence. Barney & Smith 6/1884

Western Development Museum, North Battleford, SK.
Displayed with Manitoba and Saskatchewan Coal 6166 ex CP 6166 and van CP 436148.
Relocated 1994 to Western Development Museum, Moose Jaw, SK.

BC 10 Edmonton ca.1966 Wolf Kirchmeir

Built CPR Angus EO 2440 Business Car ONTARIO 11/1928
Assigned IDP code number 87 not painted so 1958
Numbered Business Car 10 06/1962
Withdrawn from service   1980
Sold private Cambridge, ON Stored Ajax, ON 1981
Resold private Moultrie, GA 1983
Georgia Northern Railroad ASHBURN HILL  
  Renamed KENT 1985
Resold private Warden, AB TPHX 1928 ONTARIO 10/1997
  TPHX Thomas Payne Holdings  

DELETE ...NOTE: Car is stored presently (2021) at Warden AB and is for sale TPHX 1928 ONTARIO 03/2020

Owned by Bill Graham ??

BC 15 formerly, Cape Cook. Newport, Vermont.
DanSabin/Joseph Testagrose Collection.

Note: Sister to "Car 13" formerly, Cape Race. Preserved by Upper Canada Railway Society.

16 for details see car British Columbia.at top of page.

20 open observation platform both ends.
Angus CPR/Yves St-Hilaire Collection

Built by Barney & Smith 12-1 sleeping car QU’APPELLE 05/1883
Converted by CPR Hochelaga Shops 6 compartment sleeping car QU’APPELLE 05/1897
Converted by CPR Angus Shops to Business Car PENTICTON 03/1917
Numbered Business Car 20 08/1926
Redesignated as
Business Car 20
04/1951
Withdrawn from service   02/1957
Retired and dismantled at Ogden   02/1962

Two views of Superintendent's BC 23. Built by Crossen Car Mfg. Co, Cobourg, ON 6/1896 as Quebec Central Megantic. Rebuilt 1912 with steel underframe. 8/1935 renamed Beauce. 9/1939 numbered 23. Retired 1968.
Donated to NMS&T 11/1968. Transferred to CRHA and displayed by T&Y Div. CRHA at Harbourfront in Toronto.
Museum closed by Harbourfront authority and collection disbursed
This car is preserved at Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario, Smiths Falls.

http://www.cobourghistory.ca/crossen.htm

25 dual open observation platforms. Calgary 1955 CPR/Yves St-Hilaire Collection

* Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway
built this parlor-sleeping car to the patent of one Gustave Leve
who later formed Monarch Parlor-Sleeping Car Company.

The revolving chairs were collapsible, and the bedding was stored in narrow closets
along the sides of the car. Curtains formed berth enclosures, as in the ordinary sleeper.

Built by QMO&O * Parlor-sleeping car CHAPLEAU Circa 1881
Acq. by North Shore Ry.   03/1882
Acq. by CPR   09/1885
Conv. CPR Hochelaga Business Car EARNSCLIFFE 06/1890
Renamed Business Car SASKATCHEWAN 03/1917
Redesignated as Business Car 25 02/1928
Redesignated as Business Car 25 04/1951
  Withdrawn from service at Calgary summer 1964
Retired and sold to Puget Sound Ry & Historical Ass'n
Snoqualmie, WA.
12/1964


Business Car 26 one of 22 short cars, 15 built by CPR Farnham, Que. car shop and 7 at Angus. Built 1901-1912.

(26 built 9/1906). Used by Division Superintendent. Drake Street, Vancouver. Andy Cassidy Collection

Note:
BC 27 was sold 1929 to Singer Manufacturing Co. for their non-common carrier Thurso & Nation Valley.
In 1979 it was acquired by Bytown Railway Society and thoroughly restored.
Located in Ottawa at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

BC 36 built CCF/Angus 1929 as River Clyde. 1945 converted to Cape Churchill. Converted to BC 36 8/1966.
Sold 9/1970 to IPSCO Francis E. Shaw Regina. Displayed with K1a 3101 4-8-4.
Ignace, Ont. July 1970 Wolf Kirchmeir

River and Cape observation cars

Early 36 short car with 4 wheel trucks and double open platforms.
Moose Jaw, SK 1955 CPR/Yves St-Hilaire Collection

Built Crossen Car Works First Class day coach 124 04/1884
Altered to Second Class day coach 862 10/1906
Renumbered Second Class day coach 1831 11/1911
Converted Angus Shops Business Car 36 08/1914
Withdrawn from service   03/1959
Retired and dismantled   06/1960

BC 39 short car with 4 wheel trucks and double open platforms.

Medicine Hat, AB 1955 CPR/Yves St-Hilaire Collection

Built Ontario Car Co. London, ON

St Lawrence & Ottawa Rly. Parlor-sleeping car 10 RIDEAU

01/1885
Purchased by CPR (inc. 2nd car)   04/1882
Converted by Cobourg Car Works Business Car 10 08/1882
Renumbered Business Car 77 07/1885
Renumbered Business Car 15 06/1893
Named Business Car LILLOOET 04/1906
Renamed ALBERTA 03/1917
Numbered Business Car 39 07/1919
Redesignated as Business Car 39 04/1951
Withdrawn from service   10/1955
Steel hardware and car body sold Private lodge 08/1956
Acquired Fort La Reine Museum Portage La Prairie, MB 1976

 



Mechanical Instruction Car 60.

Built wood car June 1909 as single compartment observation lounge car GLEN SIDE.
Converted January 1918 to 3 compartment observation sleeping car MOUNT HOOD. .
Steel sheathed in June 1927 at Angus shops, but was never air-conditioned.
Modified June 23, 1941 at Angus as Mechanical Instruction Car 60.
Assigned Eastern Region, Toronto 1941-1978.
Retired 1978. Sold 1/1979 ORA. Re# CV 824.
Relocated 1983 to South Simcoe Ry. Scrapped 8/1999

60 sitting next to Riding Mountain Park. Sudbury 6/1978

 

 



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