Nice Tom Nelligan Photo of D&H 18 on 8/2 with a very interesting train, with no D&H cars at all. The baggage car and trailing coach are both CCF-built cars borrowed from Canadian Pacific. The second car is ex-PRR (note the non-fluted sides), with the third an ex-NYC “Valley” Budd 10-6 still lettered for NYC. Makes it the Montreal Limited, unless it’s a special move.
Excerpt from Railway Engineering & Maintenance of Way, December 1915
And now another unique structure has been added to the long list of remarkable bridges of this great railway. About a night’s ride from New York City is one of the engineering triumphs of the age—the new swing bridge over the Lachine Canal, on the St. Lawrence River, in the Province of Quebec.
From Montreal, eastbound trains on the Canadian Pacific run on an elevated embankment to Montreal Junction, the point of divergence for lines north and south, and, crossing the Lachine Canal, reaches the south bank of the St. Lawrence just above the Lachine Rapids at the Indian village of Caughnawaga, on what is generally called the “Short Line” between Montreal and Halifax. Forty-four miles out of Montreal the Stanbridge and St. Guillaume subdivision of the Canadian Pacific Railway is crossed and ten miles farther on the Montreal and Boston Air Line diverges for the White Mountains and Boston.
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It looks like the CP coach is on the rear of the train and that the sleeper is right behind the baggage car.
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Montreal Limited consist in 1970 included a sleeper lounge and a sleeper. That 2nd car is most likely a “Stream” series 5DBR-Lounge car and thus not ex Pennsy. During the PC bankruptcy proceedings I believe at one point CP impounded PC cars in Montreal for non-payment of demurrage charges
Good catch. I looked later at the sidewalls and realized that an ex-PRR “smooth-side” wouldn’t need the applied nameboards - the smooth side look is due to the light angle. The Montreal Limited’s sleepers were usually supplied by NYC even before the PC merger. What was more interesting to me was the use of CPR cars - by this time D&H had more of its ex-D&RGW/C&O cars than it needed to cover normal operations.
Lovely Photo.
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