Stettler Alberta - This Canadian Pacific Railway business car was built in August of 1921 by Canadian Car & foundry and CPR's Angus Shops in Montreal as a 10-compartment sleeper named "Glen Roy".
 
In April 1943 it was rebuilt as Business Car 83, and renamed "Lacombe", after Father Albert Lacombe.
 
Father Lacombe was an Oblate missionary who helped negotiate the right-of-way for the CPR with Chief Crowfoot through Blackfoot lands in eastern Alberta in the 1880's.
 
For this effort, both Lacombe and Crowfoot were given life-time travel passes on the CPR by William van Horne.
 
On 19 Sep 2001 CPR steam locomotive Hudson class H1b number 2816 departed Vancouver for Calgary on its Inaugural Run after rebuilding with a consist which included two business cars similar to the Lacombe.
 
In 2002 Lacombe was painted with "CANADIAN PACIFIC" on the letterboard to replace "CP Rail" then used on the tail-end of the passenger specials headed by Hudson 2816 in 2002 and 2003.
 
After these runs the car was stored in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, until 2009 when it was moved to CPR's Ogden Yard in Calgary.
 
It rested there unused until 2015 when it was leased to the Alberta Prairie Railway (APR) at Stettler, Alberta, where we see it in these photographs.
 
APR plans to refurbish the car and use it on its excursion runs from Stettler to Big Valley, Alberta.
 
They say the car will not be painted in their green and black APR livery but will retain its CPR Colonial Red livery with Deluxe Gold lettering.
 
Cor van Steenis.