March 1954
Close-up of new caboose showing improved cupola design. The new vans are the product
of Angus Shops in Montreal.
Life in a New Steel Caboose
Top - Fixed chairs and tables make routine paper work easier to handle when
long freights are on the move.
Bottom - New sytled cupola give broad vision en route, offers added protection for hot-boxes and other trouble symptoms.
Bottom - New sytled cupola give broad vision en route, offers added protection for hot-boxes and other trouble symptoms.
Built in the Company's Angus Shops in Montreal, the new steel vans provide something of a travelling office-home for freight crews. Equipped with a new-styled cupola, from which crew can keep a sharp lookout for hot-boxes and other signs of trouble, the cars possess such improved features as fixed tables and chairs, and even a home-size icebox.
Some aspects of life in the new steel caboose are illustrated by accompanying photographs, which show a crew member on watch, routine business in the travelling office, and even a raid on the icebox.
Fifty of the new units, 25 for the east and the same number for the west, comprise the new
order.
Left - Standard-sized icebox gives homey touch to caboose life. Here the crew
demonstrates ease with which a meal can be prepared.
Right - Yardman Bill Gudz dictates a note to carman Larry Burns to demonstrate imporved office facilities in new vans.
Right - Yardman Bill Gudz dictates a note to carman Larry Burns to demonstrate imporved office facilities in new vans.
This Spanner article is copyright 1954 by Canadian Pacific
Railway Limited and is reprinted here with their permission. All photographs, logos, and
trademarks are the property of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
Railway Limited and is reprinted here with their permission. All photographs, logos, and
trademarks are the property of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
