Re: passenger trains on the Lyndonville Sub (Vermont)
- From: "jshorvath10583" <jshorvath10583@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:02:16 -0000
"Dennis Storzek" <dstorzek@...> wrote:
It's interesting to note that the car requirements hardly changed
on this run over the years, and we are simply seeing successive
upgrades.
Interesting observation, Dennis. It appears that nothing much
changed until the HW section cars disappeared from the "Red Wing"
for good in the mid 1950s.
Way back in 1926, the CP arranged for the use of four Soo Line cars
for the Red Wing...The Soo Line didn't actually participate in the
operation of this train, just supplied these four cars, which
carried Boston & Montreal on the letterboard.
It appears this lettering may have been a relatively short-lived
feature of the joint B&M-CPR passenger services between Montreal and
Boston, i.e. both the "Red Wing" and "Alouette". For example, in a
long-ago issue of the B&MRRHS "Bulletin" there was mention that at
least two of the B&M's signature all-steel coaches built by Osgood
Bradley had the "Boston and Montreal" lettering. These coaches could
have appeared on either train of course. On p.60 (top) of "Railroads
of Vermont - A Pictorial" by Robert C. Jones (The New England Press,
1994) there's a photo of an all-steel baggage-express car on
the "Alouette" so lettered. I think the car is one of the relatively
few all-steel baggage cars the B&M had built new. Perhaps the use of
a dedicated pool of rolling stock with the special "Boston and
Montreal" lettering was one of those things born of the prosperity
of the opulent '20s that succumbed to the financial reality of the
depressed '30s.
JSH
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