Caption: On January 9, 1995 the CN 15:30 Kitchener Job moved the very first piece of Waterloo-St. Jacobs Railway equipment on the Waterloo Spur to St. Jacobs, Ontario where it would be set-off. The car was former CN track geometry car #15000 and was built by CC&F in 1923 as sleeper car #1570- “Jellicoe.” It featured 12 sleeper sections and one drawing room and was later reduced in 1948 to 8 sections and one drawing room as well as renumbered 1819, however still retained the name “Jellicoe.” In July 1973, CN converted it into a track geometry car.
Here the car is viewed sitting in St. Jacobs a few weeks after arriving showing its newly applied WJXX lettering. At this point, WSJR’s planned excursion service was still over two years away from commencing operations on the spur during summer 1997. More than 30 years later, today the car still calls the Waterloo Spur home, now in the employ of the Waterloo Central Railway.