• Diner/Bunk Cars— These two green cars were built in 1935 as coaches for the Soo Line Railroad Co. In 1955 Pacific Great Eastern acquired them and used them until 1972 when BCOL became the new owners. These cars feature a large, still-stocked kitchen under the bulkhead and were used on work trains as a crew diner.
• Remote Control Car— Built in March, 1950. First owned by GN and numbered 454C. In 1971 it went to Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) and became Robot RCU 112. In 1980 it went to BC Rail and became BCOL RCC 10. In 1987 it became BCOL RCC 1:2. In 1992 it came to the Museum. This was an ex-B unit remote control locomotive (RCL) which was converted to a remote control car (RCC) full of electrical equipment. It was then located along with a RCL in the middle of a train. When the engineer used the controls, a radio signal would be received by the car and then duplicated in the attached remote-controlled engine. The equipment to do this required a whole car to store it, which is why the car was converted. The RCC was connected to the RCL by a multi-use cable (MUC), which conveyed the message to the locomotive.
• Log Car— This car was built during World War II to carry tanks, and is the last of a fleet of 200 carrier cars. In 1945 the Canadian Cellulose Co. (Westar’s forerunner) bought and converted the car, adding bunks and using it to haul logs from Hazelton to Prince Rupert. It was donated to the museum in 1986. Built in 1942, it is of extremely heavy fish-belly frame construction.
• Jordan Spreader— This spreader was built for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway in June 1965. B.C. Rail acquired it in 1972, and donated it to the museum in 2005. It is maintenance-of-way equipment used in front of a locomotive to spread ballast (gravel) among the railway ties or to grade and clean the ditches along the tracks. It can also be used as a scraper or a snowplow. To perform these tasks, it is equipped with large wing-shaped blades, which can be deployed laterally and adjusted in height by compressed air. The horizontal tank at the back of the spreader contains compressed air used to deploy its side blades, which could be opened for plowing and ditching.

The work to move the cars started yesterday, but soggy soil conditions at the Railway Museum site,   have caused some delays. The work is expected to be completed by the end of the week if the weather co-operates.