I had an opportunity to fit in an hour at the West Coast railway Association
museum up in Squamish yesterday afternoon, and took some photos of Lake
Chamcook, which according to their web page is a 1928 NSC Angus built
Sleeper/Buffet Lounge. While it is in need of repair and repaint, etc, I
noticed one thing of particular interest - the "work paint" is peeling off
over the gold leaf lettering. I'm surprised it went from passenger service
with gold leaf lettering to work paint without the original finnish being
Robert, this is an interesting find. Lake Chamcook was renumbered to
business car 32 in July 1962. So this means the car survived until the end
of its revenue service in gold leaf? This is much later than I would have
expected. Is there any indication that may be gold paint was painted
overtop of the gold leaf? It's hard to tell from the photos. What do you
think?
Jeff Pinchbeck
