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Didn’t realize the Angus vans rode on journal bearing wheels. Guess they reused them off the retired wooden vans.
Jacob Being the eagle eyed retired military person that I am I should have noticed the wheel sets before I posted the photograph. Anyways thanks for pointing it out! It just shows that all of the newer vans looked exactly the same at first glance but they were not.
This wasn’t actually one of the modern Angus vans, this was an older riveted-side steel van that was rebuilt with a newer Angus-style cupola. There were a number of these done from older vans – the rivets and round end roof profile are tells.
IIRC, the 434200-series were vans assigned to coal-train service out west.
434207 was originally built in Dec 1953 (approx)as a streamlined cupola caboose number 437432.
This streamline cupola van was rebuilt in 1968-69 into a wide vision van and then was further modified for Japan coal service in 1970s-80s. retired Feb 27,1991.
Info from Canadian Pacific Caboose colour guide by Manny Jacob