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HC01146

Gas-electric passenger car 500 at Canadian Northern Railway Station, Belleville, Ontario, photographed by Harold Reid.

 

According to Trainweb: "This 74 passenger gas-electric 57 foot combine had an open rear platform. Canadian Northern was the first railway in Canada to have a self-propelled passenger car with an internal combustion engine. It was the only one Canadian Northern had.

CNoR was the first Canadian and sixth customer of GE-Wason cars."

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Uploaded on June 9, 2017
Taken sometime in 1912