RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT - Through the Years

RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT
THROUGH THE YEARS
We spent a lot of our time in the dome car
watching the country go by…not much to see
on the Prairies in late November, and cold,
but an adventure nevertheless. There was a
dome car at the end of the train also, the
Club Car, but we weren’t allowed in there…it
was for first class passengers only. There
were men’s and women’s ‘lounges’ at the
ends of the sleeper cars, where we would
have to line up to wash and brush our teeth
(and go to the bathroom!).
“The Canadian” Dome car
“The Canadian” Club car
Below the dome car (“our” dome car) was a coffee shop where for
$1.60 you could get a full breakfast….and that was expensive in
1957! A cup of coffee was 15 cents, tea or milk 20 cents. Mum
saved a menu from the coffee shop.
June 2017
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