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What was this car used for?
This was the “Auto-With-You” service, where you could travel with your car on the Super Continental between most of the major cities on the route. It basically made the Super an auto train with more flexibility in destinations. It was available until at least 1978.
Car-Go-Rail, where you could ship your personal vehicle to different cities around the country (on a freight train, you travel separately) was available longer – I knew someone who shipped his car from Edmonton to Halifax every summer into the early 1990s.
I remember those cars so painted at PSC in 1969.
Thanks Jakob, you beat me to the punch. I believe the service started summer/fall of 1969 and ended in 1976 as there is no mention of this service in the April 24, 1977 passenger timetable. The ability to ship your personal automobile by freight train may have lasted a few years longer.
Thanks everyone for your comments.
Wow….this scene sure has changed over 50 years since this photo was taken. Great photo….of a modern era gone by!
If you look at it long and hard enough the outline of the auto’s will pop out at you near the front as a double decker auto rack.
In 1995, I was able to photograph one sitting in the S yard at MacMillan Yard prior to it being scrapped. It was the only one I had ever seen.
So this was the auto train… before the auto train….