Hi Joe,
I can't see the railway using a mail car of any kind on train
809/810, the mileage works against you. The 41.7 miles between
Vancouver and Mission is handled by main line trains, and not
809/810. Even though it takes almost three hours to cover the
distance between Vancouver and Mission. Further this train only works
5 towns, and two of these are flag stops only. At Mission they arrive
at 10:15k and level at 11:15k, and arrive at Huntingdon less than an
hour later at 12:10k.
The railway simply didn't commit a mail car to a 10 mile run. They
didn't do it in Manitoba, or anywhere else that I am aware of. The
cost alone of operating the car plus staff to man it. I just can't
see it. If this train worked the entire route I could see the railway
coming close to braking even operating such a car.
Now I have consists of the train arriving in Vancouver for the
entire 1955 year. Now I realize there is a difference between 1946
and 1955. But the passenger portion of the consist is the same every
day it ran, Combine 3303. No mail car, or extra baggage express car,
or coaches, just the combine 3303. In 1946 I could see a combine and
possibly an additional coach, but thats it.
The only way one could change my mind on this is to seeing a photo
taken in the time frame of 1946, or a consist from a dispatchers,
conductors, papers or files.
Regards,
Fred Shannon
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, KVRailway <kvrailway@...> wrote:
the Huntingdon (Mission Subdivision) turn worked out of Vancouver,
Hi Fred:
Wrongo!! Employee Time Table No. 88, October 27th, 1946 shows that
This photo definitely was not the consist for train Nos. 801-802. As
I guess you must have missed my post early this morning. :>)
7,8,11,12,13, 14, 809, 810, 801, 802, 45, 46
Joe Smuin
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From: Fred Shannon
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Subject: [SPAM] [cpsig] Re: 1946 consists for No 1, 2, 3, 4,
a
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
mail car period. Any mail would have been handled by the baggageman,
on the combine.4g's
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-
working the passenger in the Arrow Lakes. Now that train hadexpress
mail car, baggage car, and a coach or two.
REgards,
Fred Shannon