The 1978 - 1980 National Museums of Canada Discovery Train / La Decouverte

Equipment Roster of the 1978 - 1980 Canadian Discovery Train

*	*	*	*	This list is a work-in-progress -- and probably always will be. Any additions or corrections, please email.
#	*	*	LOCOMOTIVES	LOCOMOTIVE NOTES
6060	*	*		Canadian National Steam Locomotive #6060, a large 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotive was proposed to pull the train according to NMC documents. It was never used. www.6060.org
1201	*	*	Canadian Pacific Steam	Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotive #1201 (a 4-6-2 Pacific type) appeared with the Discovery Train on opening day in Kingston, ON, but never pulled the train. There is a shot of the locomotive with the train in the documentary Once Upon a Train: The Discovery Train, Year One. A nice camera move makes it appear the locomotive is beginning to pull the train, but it isn't.
*	*	*		CN Diesels. Various Canadian National diesels were used to pull the Discovery Train. The first was CN 5127, which headed the train as it left its first display city of Kingston for Montreal.
*	*	*		CP Diesels. Various Canadian Pacific diesels were used to pull the Discovery Train.
Car Number in 1978	Car Number in 1979 & 1980	Union Pacific Car Numbers	CARS	CAR NOTES
n/a	201	A201 920000		Tech Car 201 was not originally part of the Discovery Train. The car was added for the train's second season (1979). A six-axle baggage car, the car was simply painted white with three small Discovery Train logos on each end. Later to Union Pacific as A201. Later 920000. Ex-CN 8035, nee-9074, built by National Steel Car Co., LTD and delivered to the CN between February and May 1951. Privately owned since 1994 and stored at Raleigh, NC.
219?	202	A202 920001		Boutique Car. Exterior art: Portrait of an Inuit. 4-axle baggage. Ex-VIA baggage car? Numbered 219 on the car end. The car contained a reproduction of a 19th century Hudson Bay Company store, The Trading Post. Please email if you know more about the car or its contents.
?	203	A203 920002		Storage Car. Exterior art: Portrait of an Indian woman. Ex-VIA? Six-axle trucks. Later to Union Pacific and stored in Council Bluffs and outside Las Vegas, NV. One of the only Discovery Train cars to survive storage outside Las Vegas. Now privately owned as STRX 203 and stored at New Orleans, still in Discovery Train livery.
?	204	A204 920003		Storage Car. Exterior art: Portrait of a soldier with a white hat. Ex-VIA baggage car?
?	205	A205 UP 205		Generator Car. Exterior art: Portrait of a colonial soldier. Ex-American Freedom Train 200. Later Union Pacific 205, part of their yellow business car fleet. Scrapped at Cheyenne, WY ~2008.
?	206	A206 UP 206		Generator/Exit/Display Car 14. Exterior art: Portrait of a nun. Ex-AFT 111. Later UP 206, then Pacific Railway Preservation Association PRPX 111.
?	207	A207 920004		Display Car 13. Exterior art: Portrait of a soldier with a black hat. Interior: The Finale. Ex-AFT 110.
?	208	A208 920005	Display	Display Car 12. Exterior art: Portrait of a Suffragette. Interior: 1945 to Present. Ex-AFT 109.
?	209	A209 920006		Display Car 11. Exterior art: Portrait of a woman and child. Interior: The Second World War 1939 - 1945. Ex-AFT 108.
?	210	A210 920007		Display Car 10. Exterior art: Portrait of a prospector. Interior: Boom and Bust 1900 - 1939. Ex-AFT 107.
?	211	A211 920008	Display	Display Car 9. Exterior art: Portrait of a Mountie. Interior: The Pioneers 1885 - 1910. Ex AFT-106.
?	212	A212 920009		Display Car 8. Exterior art: Portrait of a woman with tall hat. Interior: Immigrants from Central Europe. Ex AFT-105.
?	213	A213 920010	Display	Display Car 7. Exterior art: Portrait of a doughboy. Interior: British North America. Ex-AFT 104.
?	214	A214 920011	Display	Display Car 6. Exterior art: Portrait of a sea captain. Interior: New France. Ex-AFT 103.
?	215	A215 920012	Display	Display Car 5. Exterior art: Portrait of a military pilot. Interior: Indians and Inuit. Ex-AFT 102.
?	216	A216 920013		Display Car 4. Exterior art: Portrait of an infant. Interior: Prehistoric Man. Moving walkways started with this car. Ex-AFT 101.
?	217	A217 920014	Tunnel	Showcase/Tunnel/Display Car 3. Exterior art: Portrait of a construction worker. Interior: Discover Canada: The West to Beringia. No moving walkway. Had large windows on the side through which exhibits could be viewed. Ex-AFT 41.
?	218	A218 920015	Tunnel	Showcase/Tunnel/Display Car 2. Exterior art: No portraits, just stripes. Interior: Discover Canada: Eastern Woodlands to the Grasslands. No moving walkway. Had large windows on the side through which exhibits could be viewed. Ex-AFT 40.
?	219	A219 920016		Entrance/Display Car 1. Exterior art: Portrait of a modern day professional woman. Interior: Discover Canada: East Coast. Ex-American Freedom Train 100.
218	220	n/a		Business/Press/VIP Reception Car. Open end observation car. For the Discovery Train it was originally numbered 218 on the tail, later 220. The car was built for the Canadian Government Railway by Rhodes-Curry in 1905 as their sleeping car ALEXANDRA. It has been described as the most elegant car ever built by the Amherst, Nova Scotia plant. Today it is part of the "Train Station Inn" at Tatamagouche, NS, still in Discovery Train livery. The Nova Scotia Railway Heritage Society has the details.
*	*	*	*	MISC
*	*	*		Wagons. Several utility and souvenir wagons accompanied the train.
*	*	*	*	Acknowledgments
*	*	*	*	Research resources include: Mary Jayne & John Z. Rowe, John Hendricks, Louise Fay, Don Evans, everyone at the West Coast Railway Heritage Park, Martin Lewis, Barry Howard, Frank Donnelly, Gary Hadfield, Brian Collins, John Bromley, Gary Zuters, Phil Mason, Serge Lebel, John McFadden, Jerry LaBoda's Passenger Car Photo Index, George Elwood's Fallen Flags, Don Stack's comprehensive UtahRails.net website. Many thanks to all who have contributed to keeping track of the histories of the equipment of the 1978-80 Discovery Train!