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Owner: Mount Rainier Scenic
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: PA: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type: M500
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
User Notes:   NEW RELIANCE, ex-BCPM LONE BUTTE, nee-CP #2242

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MRSR #583 NEW RELIANCE
Title:  MRSR #583 NEW RELIANCE
Description:  Built as CP 52 seat chair-16 seat smoker #2242, 1 of 99 such cars (#2200-#2298) built in 1947-1949 as shells by CC&F and NSC and completed by the CP shops through 1950. In 1973, CP sold 15 of these cars to the British Columbia Provincial Museum for use with CP Royal Hudson #2860; the #2242 was named LONE BUTTE. 6 of these cars were later sold to the Mount Rainier Scenic; the LONE BUTTE as the #583 NEW RELIANCE. EXIF: 2:46 PM, f/3 @ 1/1000, ISO-100
Photo Date:  7/19/2014  Upload Date: 7/22/2014 12:54:40 AM
Location:  Mineral, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  739   Comments: 0
MRSR #583 NEW RELIANCE
Title:  MRSR #583 NEW RELIANCE
Description:  Built as CP 52 seat chair-16 seat smoker #2242, 1 of 99 such cars (#2200-#2298) built in 1947-1949 as shells by CC&F and NSC and completed by the CP shops through 1950. In 1973, CP sold 15 of these cars to the British Columbia Provincial Museum for use with CP Royal Hudson #2860; the #2242 was named LONE BUTTE. 6 of these cars were later sold to the Mount Rainier Scenic; the LONE BUTTE as the #583 NEW RELIANCE. EXIF: 2:46 PM, f/3 @ 1/500, ISO-100
Photo Date:  7/19/2014  Upload Date: 7/22/2014 1:43:59 AM
Location:  Mineral, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  595   Comments: 0


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