Park series

The Park series, also called the Park car, was a fleet of 18 lightweight streamlined dome-sleeper-observation cars that the Budd Company delivered to the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1954 for the transcontinental Canadian. Sixteen were named for Canadian national or provincial parks, one for a wildlife reserve and one for a private park owned by a Canadian Pacific subsidiary. Each stainless steel car held three double bedrooms and a drawing room at the front, a 12-seat beverage room under the dome called the Mural Lounge, a 13-seat observation lounge at the rear and 24 dome seats, with a listed capacity of 54. A Canadian artist painted murals for each car. Fundy Park was wrecked in 1959, and Via Rail took the other 17 in 1978 and rebuilt them with head end power in the early 1990s; 14 remained on its roster in 2015.