DCHP-3

pool (passenger) train

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a train operated over a line of track by more than one railway company.

Quotations

1959
His death was the fifth caused by the collision in which a CNR freight ripped open the side of a dining car on a pool passenger train being shunted in the yards.
1965
At one time the pool trains ran over the CNR to Brockville and then by CPR tracks to Ottawa. . . . As at the end of October, the pool trains ceased to exist and the two railways went on their separate ways.