railway ambulance

[Robert Davidson]

A local museum has one of these railroad track station wagons that CN used to run. They had one just like this as an ambulance to get from Cochrane to Moose Factory on James Bay


070603 090 by ocrr4204, on Flickr

 

[Mike Boyer]

where is the Museum ???

 

[Anthony J. Rzucidlo - Deceased - 1953-2019]

Railroad Ambulance

Several years ago I rode that line and what I can recall is, the only way to get there is by rail. Never heard of a railroad ambulance set-up like this one (hi-rail) capability, but it makes sense.

 

[John ED Renstrom]

one dose what works best in the out back.

 

[Steve Loftin]

A local museum has one of these railroad track station wagons that CN used to run. They had one just like this as an ambulance to get from Cochrane to Moose Factory on James Bay

I'm not sure what you're telling us - is this the ambulance, or a car that looks like it?

 

[Robert Davidson]

museum of science and technology

where is the Museum ???

they run this up and down the short siding they have at the Museum of Science and Technology on Lancaster road in the east end of Ottawa.
Lots of trains, planes,bike, and interesting cars etc but sadly no ambulances.
they do have awebsite dedicated to the " Canadian car" thats interesting.. my son got to do a lot of the photography for the webdesign firm he works for that built it...
http://www.canadiancar.technomuses.ca/

 

[Robert Davidson]

ambulance

I'm not sure what you're telling us - is this the ambulance, or a car that looks like it?

They used them as ambulances and I have a page from a popular mechanics that shows the same type of CNR car with the stretcher in it. just have to find where I put it so I can scan it to post...

 

[Patrick J. Martin]

Now that's a different idea, a high-rail ambulance, but makes perfect sense!

And of course the subject of the trolley and interurban line funeral cars have been discussed before, at least on the old message board if not on this one.

But now Milwaukee had something that I think may very well be unique, or at least I've never heard of another one. Milwaukee had a streetcar ambulance, which they called a hospital car. And fortunately, it still exists, and a museum currently has it under restoration. Although the car had three very different uses and configurations during its service life, with only one of them being as a hospital car, and I do not know in which version the museum is restoring it as.

 

[Robert Davidson]

a long lonely run

The first part of the trip was by ambulance boat from the hospital at Moose Factory on the island there to the railhead at Moosenee , then the long lonely run down the tracks to Cochrane -186 miles ( 300KM) through the bush. No gas stations, phone booths, stop signs, towns or places to pull over....must have been a hairy run at the best of times let alone at night when there might be moose on the tracks...

 

[Kevin Lynch]

My my

Moose don't come from a factory and I don't think this is the proper forum to explain further.

 

[Dean Wilkinson]

Here is a a video of a modern day railway ambulance. Worth the watch to see how thry can turn the unit around without leaving the tracks.

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[John ED Renstrom]

flips free on that turntable . a rig like this is the best of both worlds. or as good as it gets for a duel purpose. hate to see how it would handle on the street with the extra weight.