Canada Atlantic Passenger Cars Overview

Dimensions

Colour of CA-built cars	Cherry Stain	Merrilees-Builders

Date	Coaches	Combination	Baggage	Official	Parlour	Total	Source	Notes
1887-06	2	1	0	0	0	3	ORER 1887-06
1888-10	6	2	1	0	0	9	ORER 1888-10
1890-11	6	2	1	0	0	9	ORER 1889-11
1895-05	10+2	2+2	3	1	0	16+4	ORER 1895-05	CA + OA&PS
1899-09	14+4	4+10	4	1+1	3	24+15	ORER 1899-09	CA + OA&PS
1901-07	22	14	4	2	0	43	ORER 1901-07
1901-10	23	11	8	2	2	46	ORER 1901-10
1902-07	20	11	7	2	3	43	ORER 1902-07
1903-07	22	9	7	2	3	43	ORER 1903-07
1904-07	22	8	7	2	4	43	ORER 1904-07
1905-02	22	8	7	2	4	43	ORER 1905-02
1905-07	22	8	7	2	4	43	ORER 1905-07
1906-04	14	5	4	2	3	28	ORER 1906-04
1907-07	2	0	0	0	0	2	ORER 1907-07

Date	Event	Source	Notes
1899-03-03	CAR to install Pintsch gas lights.	Fleming: Renfrew Mercury
1899-06-23	OA&PS passenger cars refurbished.	Fleming:Renfrew Mercury
1901-12	CA Building two parlour cars in Ottawa shops for use between Ottawa and Montreal.	CRSW p375	Later retracted in CRSW 1902-01 p12
1902-05	Car repair shops damaged by fire recently. Two passenger cars, a combine, two freight cars and a wrecking derrick were destroyed.	CRSW p169
1902-07	Recently constructed two first class coaches, 65 ft long, wide vestibule, six wheel trucks.	CRSW p240

CRSW: Canadian Railway and Shipping World. Available from the National Museum of Science and Technology
ORER: Official Railway Equipment Register. Not every occurence of the car is enumerated. The first occurence in my collection is noted, as is the first absence; usually these will be within about a year of the first and last listing in the ORER. Other significant listings (for example after the car was thought to have been destroyed) are also noted.
MG31,A10,Vol 1, File 6: Public Archives of Canada, Merrilees Collection
MG31,A10,Vol 3, File 26: PAC, Merrilees Collection. This undated listing of GTR passenger cars was printed no earlier than 1909, as it lists 2555