About WCRX 1437
Model: PB heavyweight coach
Builder: Canadian Car & Foundry/Canadian Pacific Angus shops
Date Built: December 1923
Lineage: CP 1437 / CP 411273 (OCS work car) / CP 1720 (coach) / National Museum of Science and Technology “Midway” / St. Thomas Central 1437 “Midway” / WCRX 1437
Notes:
- Converted to OCS work car CP 411723 in February 1970
- Reconditioned and returned to revenue passenger service as CP 1720 for use on Dominion Atlantic Railway
- Windsor to Truro, Nova Scotia mixed train in June 1975
- To National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, Ontario in 1981 and named “Midway” for excursion service with CP 1201.
- To SOLRS/St. Thomas Central, St. Thomas, Ontario, March 2000
- Moved to Waterloo Central Railway in 2007
- Currently undergoing complete restoration in St. Jacobs
