Throwback Thursday - A Little Variety, Please.

 

CP 550363 was parked in the CP yard at Havelock on August 07, 1994.  

By Peter Mumby.

Long cuts, or even solid trains, of enclosed auto racks are pretty normal on all of today’s large railways.  The sameness of these cars can often make train-watching a little on the dull side.  Perhaps you can remember when such consists contained a mixture of these enclosed racks with older cars of the open variety.  Consider CP 550363, a 1965 product of National Steel Car.  It belonged to the 550260-550384 series.  Many cars of this type were built as fully open cars and had the side screens added as a later modification.