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Caption: Home away from home. There's no one sleeping in this windowless boarding car tucked away in TH&B's Aberdeen Avenue Yard. At least not any railway employees! Box cars and old passenger equipment converted into MoW service were a mainstay of most railroads prior to the introduction of modular housing units mounted on flat cars in the early 1970's. Lots of neat little features on this old car. Outside braced wood construction, roof level hand brake wheel, roof walk, full length car end ladders, single side coupler cut levers, end doors for between car access, and, the smoke stack for the coal or oil stove is still standing. I spent many a night in old cars like this beginning in 1969 and into the 1970's during my early CN days.
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Luxury accommodation, heated and air conditioned.
Paul….if I am not mistaken X759 was acquired by the NIAGARA RAILWAY MUSEUM in the past couple of years from a private rural farm property collection on RR24 just north of Riverview Golf (Welland-Pelham) and moved to Fort Erie for preservation…thanks for posting
Thanks for that info Michael. I’ll follow up on that.
From the Niagara Railway Museum site:
TH&B Carpenters Boarding car X-759 is seen prior to being sent for scrap. In 1979 this car, originally built as a wood boxcar #3775 in 1913, it was converted to work service by 1947. Saved from scrap by Ken Robbins in Fenwick, the car now resides at the Niagara Railway Museum.