DCHP-2
tourist (sleeping-) car DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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See also: colonist car
- 1899 On the first of February or at an early date a new schedule of rates for tourist car accommodation will come into effect on the C.P.R.
- 1902 (1956) The tourist cars are comfortably arranged though much less elegant than the first class cars. At one end of the car a small room contains a stove where passengers may prepare tea and warm such victuals as they have brought with them. At night they may occupy a berth in the tourist sleeping car by paying $1.50 extra, but they are expected to furnish their own bedding.
- 1912 Tourist car, the class of railway car between the Pullman and the colonist, about equalling the second-class accommodation on Old-Country lines.
- 1899 On the first of February or at an early date a new schedule of rates for tourist car accommodation will come into effect on the C.P.R.