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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.