Comments on: A CP Van among many other CP Vans! CP Van 434207 was sitting in the Revelstoke van maintenance area along with many others and it was the one I chose to photograph. Little did I know that the RY Vans would not be around much longer. Another piece of history gone!

By: TMike

TMike — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 21:45:01 +0000

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

By: MrDan

MrDan — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:55:28 +0000

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.

By: james booth

james booth — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:50:27 +0000

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.

By: Jacob Patterson

Jacob Patterson — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 03:41:39 +0000

Didn’t realize the Angus vans rode on journal bearing wheels. Guess they reused them off the retired wooden vans.