Interchange of passenger cars in the past

[mdvle]

Might be of interest given the questions that have been asked in the past regarding locos and freight cars travelling off of home rails.

 

This page has a lot of consist info for passenger trains operating on the Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo (a railway joint owned by the CPR and NYC operating around Hamilton Ontario).

 

While CPR, NYC, and TH&B equipment dominates other equipment frequently appears, in some cases surprisingly.  Such as December 5th 1953 when train 379 has a Southern Railway sleeper, and train 382 has a UP sleeper operating in Canada.

 

Or December 23rd gets a MP sleeper, and UP makes another appearance again in December.

 

http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/passenger-consists-th&b.htm

 

And from another page of consists on the same site, for the Canada Southern (NYC owned line across southern Ontario connecting Detroit with Buffalo) we get July 2nd 1963 with a SP and ATSF baggage cars in a NYC train.

 

http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/passenger-consists.htm

 

 

[dave1905]

There were some routes that normally had through cars between the western states and the eastern states, or between the Northeast and the South.  many of the cars were exchanged at union stations at major interchange cities (Chicago, St Louis, Memphis, New Orleans).  They were also common where railroads jointly operated a train (CNW-UP, MP-DRGW-WP, CRIP-SP).