You're correct Joe, I misread the article as the dates
referred to the current group not earlier versions of
these cars.
Rainer
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "K V Railway" <kvrailway@...> wrote:
Created considerably before 1984, Rainer. Ice breaker cars were going
through Kamloops during the winter of 1975-1976. As I recall, they were
mounted on old 40-foot box cars. At that time, the explanation that I
recall for them was that they prevented icicles from damaging cars on the
autoracks. I've never researched this, but I expect that at least until the
section forces were drastically cut in the 1960s, the sectionmen kept an eye
on ice buildup in the tunnels. When the section forces were drastically
thinned out, then other measures had to be resorted to and the icebreaker
car was 'it.'
Joe Smuin
