Manor series

The Manor series was a fleet of 42 lightweight streamlined sleeping cars that the Budd Company built for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1954 and 1955, and the largest of the Budd sleeper classes ordered for the Canadian. The stainless steel cars carried a Tuscan red letterboard with the name Canadian Pacific and were named for distinguished English Canadians rather than numbered. Each held five bedrooms, one compartment, four sections and four roomettes, for 24 passengers. They were part of a 173-car Budd order that equipped the new transcontinental Canadian and re-equipped the Dominion. Via Rail took over the fleet in 1978 and rebuilt the cars with a communal shower. Aylmer Manor burned in 1987 and became a test bed for Via head end power conversion, Dufferin Manor was wrecked at Biggar in 1997, and 40 were on the roster in 2015.