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CPR Rolling Stock
Business Cars
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| Withdrawn from service |
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01/1983 |
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Retired and acquired by the
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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 |
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01/1918 |
| Interior modified |
Business Car KILLARNEY |
02/1918 |
| Redesignated |
Business Car KILLARNEY |
04/1951 |
| Air-conditioned ice system Angus |
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03/1953 |
| Assigned IDP code number 71* |
* not so painted until AEI 1999 |
1958 |
| Converted to mechanical AC |
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late 1960's |
| Assigned Royal Canadian Pacific |
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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
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Built by CPR Hochelaga on EO 287.
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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 |
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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 |
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06/1911 |
| Converted to parlor car |
DAR SANSPAREIL |
08/1913 |
| Converted to business car |
DAR NOVA SCOTIA |
11/1915 |
| Interior modified Angus |
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01/1941 |
| Numbered CPR 7 |
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04/1958 |
| Withdrawn from service |
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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 |
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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 |
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1980 |
| Sold private Cambridge, ON |
Stored Ajax, ON |
1981 |
| Resold private |
Moultrie, GA |
1983 |
| Georgia Northern Railroad |
ASHBURN HILL |
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Renamed KENT |
1985 |
| Resold private Warden, AB |
TPHX 1928 ONTARIO |
10/1997 |
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TPHX Thomas Payne Holdings |
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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 |
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Redesignated as
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Business Car 20
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04/1951
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| Withdrawn from service |
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02/1957 |
| Retired and dismantled at Ogden |
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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. |
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03/1882 |
| Acq. by CPR |
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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 |
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Withdrawn from service at Calgary |
summer 1964 |
| Retired and sold to |
Puget Sound Ry & Historical Ass'n
Snoqualmie, WA.
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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 |
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03/1959 |
| Retired and dismantled |
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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
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01/1885 |
| Purchased by CPR (inc. 2nd car) |
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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 |
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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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