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tourist (sleeping-) car
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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See: colonist car
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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
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.