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NAHX 455605 was in the employ of Cominco Limited at the time this photo was taken on October 04, 1997 in London, Ontario. |
By Peter MumbyCanadian
Pacific Railway got into the mining business in southern British
Columbia in 1906 when it set up the Consolidated Mining and Smelting
Company of Canada Limited as a subsidiary. Several decades later the
company started producing chemical fertilizers as a side line as a way
to make use of sulphur dioxide which was emitted by smelting processes.
The company's official name was changed to Cominco in 1968, and then CP
gave up its ownership stake in 1986. Seeing this car in a CP yard in
1997 provided a nice little reminder of when Canadian Pacific was a
highly diversified company.
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