http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Thu, 07 May 2026 22:12:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=13799#comment-26486 robin lowrie Thu, 10 May 2018 21:23:46 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/DSC_0208-edited.jpg#comment-26486 A side note; In that era, a flower-growing business in Medicine Hat, Alberta, regularly shipped carloads of fresh flours for the Parliamentary Gardens in Ottawa. CP used the 4700-series baggage cars (later 2700 series) for this traffic. Because they no longer had properly trained car-men in the "Hat", the cars were hauled empty to Calgary and put, as needed, on an Eastbound train. During the 20-minute stop in Medicine hat, several trucks and swampers would pull up to the station platform and stuff the car full of flowers. The late Floyd Yeats, a CP engineer, told me about this when it was still happening. A side note; In that era, a flower-growing business in Medicine Hat, Alberta, regularly shipped carloads of fresh flours for the Parliamentary Gardens in Ottawa. CP used the 4700-series baggage cars (later 2700 series) for this traffic. Because they no longer had properly trained car-men in the “Hat”, the cars were hauled empty to Calgary and put, as needed, on an Eastbound train. During the 20-minute stop in Medicine hat, several trucks and swampers would pull up to the station platform and stuff the car full of flowers. The late Floyd Yeats, a CP engineer, told me about this when it was still happening.

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