Comments on: One of Canadian Pacific’s rare bay window cabooses sits in the joint CN-CP yard. It is used when the yard job(Classified as a road switcher) goes to Winfield 15 miles north of Kelowna

By: RonaldB

RonaldB — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 20:15:27 +0000

RE PEIR’s question, I recall as a teenager seeing one on a freight train operating between London ON and Windsor. That’s the only time I’ve seen one. That would have been in the mid 1960s.

By: smallspy

smallspy — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 14:59:46 +0000

Not specifically smoother – but as there is more friction between the individual leaves in the spring pack, they are far better at dampening out oscillations, and thus be less “bouncy”.

Another option is to replace one of the spring packs on each side of the truck with a special dampening strut, although it doesn’t look like this was done on this car.

By: Jacob Patterson

Jacob Patterson — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:58:18 +0000

Did the leaf springs provide a smoother ride for the crew in the van?

By: MrDan

MrDan — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:19:03 +0000

CP built three of them, 437265-67, but they didn’t opt for building more. One survives out west at a museum/park.

Interesting that this one appears to have gotten brown paint in the early 70′s, and not action yellow. Also that it has typical freight car trucks, and not caboose trucks with leaf springs.

By: PEIR

PEIR — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 23:17:06 +0000

I didn’t realize CP had this type of van. Was it more of a transfer van vs road van?