Unidentified Freight Cars
Freight Car· unitHistory
23 facts
| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1887-11-21 | The Canada Atlantic Railway received yesterday from the Pullman Car Company a train of thirty-two box freight cars, which form the second installment on their order for 500 cars. The new cars will be used in the lumber carrying business. | Ottawa Journal 1887-11-21(No numbers given, so filed against the unidentifie...) | |
| 1888-03-05 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company have just received from the Pullman Car Company two hundred freight cars which will be used during the coming spring in the lumber carrying trade on that line. | Ottawa Journal 1888-03-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) | |
| 1888-04-19 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company have just made another addition to their rolling stock: a train of twenty-five empty freight cars arrived in the city from Pullman, to be used that summer in carrying lumber. | Ottawa Journal 1888-04-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...),Ottawa Citizen 1888-04-29(Same batch reported again ten days later: 'the las...) | |
| 1888-05-26 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company have just received from the Pullman Company a train of thirty-two freight cars which will be used this season for hauling lumber. | Ottawa Journal 1888-05-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) | |
| 1892-07-26 | A most complete wrecking car had just been completed at the C.A.R. workshops. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-07-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1893-03-29 | The Canada Atlantic railway employees broke up some forty of the old cars that had been in use when the line was first opened; the wheels were to be used for new freight cars. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-03-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1893-04-07 | The Canada Atlantic Railway workshops at Ottawa had an order to build the rolling stock for the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound railway, including one hundred freight cars then being worked on; another addition to the workforce was expected within a couple of weeks so the cars would be ready for the beginning of regular traffic about May 1st. The new line's passenger coaches were being built at Cobourg. | Almonte Gazette 1893-04-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1893-07-26 | Over one hundred new flat cars, all built at Cobourg, had been purchased for the new O.A. & P.S. railway and were sent up as they arrived to be employed at once in ballasting the line. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-07-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1893-09-20 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway had one hundred platform cars, all 34 feet long, built by the Crossen Car Manufacturing Co. of Cobourg (Limited). Boxcars were to be supplied in the meantime by the C.A.R., and it was contemplated to build box cars at Ottawa shortly; a large amount of material had been ordered, including four hundred yellow pitch pine car sills from the Southern States and a quantity of Canadian white pine and oak timber (the latter for "treansits" [sic]). | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-20(Article headed "$75,000 in rolling stock". Transcr...) | |
| 1893-11-27 | Some fifty more flat cars were to be prepared that week for ballasting work on the Parry Sound construction line, and small canvas shelters for the brakemen who ran the ballast trains, fastened to the flat cars, were being constructed in the mechanical shops on Elgin street; on November 10 the Mercury had reported fifty flat cars prepared for ballasting between Round and Golden Lake, with canvas shelters for the brakemen at each end. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-11-27(Also in the Renfrew Mercury of December 1. Transcr...),Mercury 1893-11-10(Fifty flat cars prepared for ballasting between Ro...) | |
| 1894-05-15 | Twenty new cattle cars for the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, each 34 feet in length, have just been built in the mechanical shops of the Elgin street depot. A few cattle are coming down the line at present and the cars will be used for different kinds of freight until the autumn comes. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-05-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1894-05-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1894-05-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1894-05-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1894-08-26 | Ottawa, Ontario, Aug. 26. Fire this afternoon burned 300 lumber piles, a long string of freight cars on the Canada Atlantic Railway, and late tonight, the fire was still not under control. The fire broke out in Mr. J.R. Booth's lumber piles in Rochesterville between Cedar Street bridge and the Parry Sound crossing, covering fully a quarter of a mile and destroying a thousand piles of lumber; losses were expected to reach $70,000. The Cedar St. school, a dozen railway cars, three small dwelling houses, and all the railway tracks and platforms throughout the yard were destroyed. Two railway sidings filled with cars separated the burning piles from the yard of the Export Lumber Company, and six of the cars on those sidings were destroyed; some belonged to the Delaware and Hudson railway, others to the Grand Trunk and the C.A.R. An attempt was made to haul these cars away, but the fire was too intense to admit of rescue. Some cars on another siding leading from the O.A. & P.S. into a more central part of the yard were saved by being hauled out just in time. | New York Times 1894-08-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1894-08-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1894-08-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1895-04-30 | The C.A.R. will construct one hundred flat cars this summer. | Ottawa Journal 1895-04-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-06-07 | Of the one hundred flat cars to be built for the O.A. & P.S. railway, twenty five are now finished. Each car has a capacity of 60,000 pounds. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-06-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1897 | Last year the Ottawa and Parry Sound railway company purchased 500 freight cars. Reported 1898-12-19 quoting 'an Ottawa paper'; 'last year' read as 1897. The item names 'the Ottawa and Parry Sound railway'. | Huntsville Forester 1898-12-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898 | Last spring it had to rent 500 more to move the grain from Chicago and Duluth. Reported 1898-12-19; 'last spring' read as spring 1898. | Huntsville Forester 1898-12-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-04-07≥ | A new flat car at the C.A.R. shops slipped down one of the grades yesterday afternoon and was wrecked on a number of trucks near the canal. (As reported by 7 April 1898; the source dates the event only relatively.) | Ottawa Journal 1898-04-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-05-09 | There is great activity at present at the car shops of the Canada Atlantic railway, and the industry, which is becoming one of the foremost in Ottawa is being constantly developed. Twenty-five stock cars have been completed and work has just commenced on the construction of twenty-five refrigerator cars. Each of these will be 35 feet in length and will have a weight of 60,000 pounds. Material is also being prepared for the immediate commencement of work on 500 box cars to be used in the grain and general freight traffic of the road. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-05-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-05-12 | At the Elgin street depot about 30 new cattle cars have been built recently in the car works. ... Next week the building of 26 refrigerator cars will be commenced. The company have introduced into the building portable machines such as saws, bitts, augurs and other contrivances for the building of rolling stock. ... About 1,000 cars are daily coming and going to and from the yards and the scene presented is a busy one. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-05-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-08-05 | Twenty-two new box cars for grain are now being built for the western division, and as soon as completed will be immediately used, while the shops will continue building others. A number of 70,000 pound box cars will also be built. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-08-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-08-25 | At the car works, fifty refrigerator cars, the same number of stock cars and about one hundred and twenty grain cars have been turned out this season, beside several baggage and high class passenger coaches. The freight cars are turned out at the rate of four cars per day. ... About 500 will be built altogether. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-08-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-01-13 | Thirty cars, each forty feet long and with a weight of 70,000 pounds have recently been completed at the C.A.R. car shops for use in Mr. J.R. Booth's log traffic between the upper Parry Sound district and Ottawa. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-01-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-02-03 | At the shops in Ottawa East, besides the regular repairs, air brakes are being fitted to all the flat cars and freights. As many as ten cars a day are fitted up with the air brake. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-02-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
Notes
Facts about freight cars where the specific car or series is unknown.