12 November 2007
Ex-CP Employee Safety Car Delivered to
Museum
Beiseker Alberta - Canadian Pacific's employee
safety car CP 51, formerly baggage car CP 4722, but repainted and decorated for use as a mobile meeting room at
division points lacking appropriate facilities was recently delivered to the Alberta 2005 Centennial Railway Museum
Society.
The self-contained car contains a power supply, water, and heating so it may function without support
at any point on the railway.
The murals were painted on the car by locomotive engineer Brent Sewell with assistance by Jan Kreuger in 1989 and
took over 200 hours to complete. The workers depicted on the car are a locomotive engineer, trainman, carman,
sectionman, switch maintainer, and a dispatcher. The running trades and maintenance-of-way employees
were the main users of the safety car.
The stairs attach at the main door and were built to travel with the car. They are stored under the body while the
car is in transit.
 Alberta 2005 Centennial Railway
Museum
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