Vol. 17 No. 12
December, 1987
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Former Instruction Car Has
Museum for Home
On Track: Some of the people who
keep the Port Moody Station Museum on track pose for a photo with former CP Rail Instruction Car No.
49.
Port Moody B.C. - CP Rail's former Instruction Car No. 49 has a new
home on the tracks at the Port Moody Station Museum here.
Originally named the "Venosta", the car was a double-bedroom sleeper (4 bedrooms and 8
sections). Built at Angus Shops in the 1920s, the steel walled car was one of 14 such cars on the system. The car was
mechanically air-conditioned in 1936 and the interior modernized in 1952.
In 1960, the sleeping car was converted into a non-revenue Rules and Safety Inspection Car No. 49
(later just called Instruction Car No. 49) and assigned to the former Pacific Region.
CP Rail used the car as a portable classroom for training operating crews on signals, operating procedures, safety,
and rules examinations. One member of the Port Moody Station Museum, Bob Banford, passed his exams in the car.
CP Rail donated the 95-tonne car to the Port Moody Heritage Society and Harnischfeger Corporation
arranged for its safe delivery to the museum site.
Still painted its pre-1939 Tuscan Red with yellow trim and lettering, Car No. 49 will probably be used,
after exterior restoration and interior renovation, as a meeting room, seminar space, and exhibition display area,
said Museum Curator Diane Rogers.
This CP Rail News article is copyright
1987 by the Canadian Pacific Railway and is reprinted here with
their permission. All photographs, logos, and trademarks are the property of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company.
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