Hi Fred:
Wrongo!! Employee Time Table No. 88, October 27th, 1946 shows that the
Huntingdon (Mission Subdivision) turn worked out of Vancouver, departing 730k,
reaching Huntingdon at 12.10k and departing 13.40k and returning to Vancouver
at 17k. I think the photo in question most likely shows this train.
I guess you must have missed my post early this morning. :>) This photo
definitely was not the consist for train Nos. 801-802. As per my earlier
explanation, trains 801 and 802 did not run west of Revelstoke, nor were they
barged ovee the Arrow Lake system.
Joe Smuin
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Shannon
To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:13 PM
Subject: [SPAM] [cpsig] Re: 1946 consists for No 1, 2, 3, 4, 7,8,11,12,13,
14, 809, 810, 801, 802, 45, 46
Hi Robert,
I don't think so. The 809/810 Huntingdon, was and to this day
still is a interchange transfer job, travelling only 10 miles one
way. There isn't enough mail traffic to warrant a express mail or a
mail car period. Any mail would have been handled by the baggage man,
on the combine.
I think it may be 801/802 Robson West/Revelstoke via Arrow Lakes.
Now I have seen photo's in Bains books CP in the Rockies of D-4g's
working the passenger in the Arrow Lakes. Now that train had express
mail car, baggage car, and a coach or two.
REgards,
Fred Shannon
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Rob Kirkham <rdkirkham@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks Fred,
>
> Its a long term project I'm working on. I've found a lot of the
answers in
> e-mails from the group and in the passenger versions of the ORER's
for 1945
> and 1947 off the CP SIG web library. But some things - like that
local
> train 809/810 are tough to find answers with the sources I've
checked. This
> evening, a photo I noticed at the City of Vancouver Archives struck
me as a
> possible answer. CVA 447-411.6 shows little D4g 463 with a wood
car -
> baggage or combine or mail - I'm not clear, in Vancouver May 24,
1940. Now
> while I don't know what passenger trains might have been in
Vancouver with
> that power and that sort of head end car, I thought I'd suggest the
> possibility it is a shot of the Huntingdon local. Any cries of
derision, or
> might my guess be right?
>
> Try to locate it at
>
http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/ctyclerk/archives/notdream/ws_photo.ht
m
> searching in the keyword space: 447-411.6 to see it.
>
> thanks to all
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
