Baggage Car: Engineer Albert Chapman

Engineer Albert Chapman: It was shaping up to be a warm, early-summer day and a pleasant trip west. Engineer Albert Chapman had made the journey on the CPR steam locomotive many times, according to CBC. Mail car, baggage car, three "colonial cars," two second-class "tourist cars," a comfortable first-class coach, a dining car and a Pullman and The Winnipeg Express chugged out of Montreal at 9:45 a.m. ET on June 25, 1913, hauling 10 cars. LISTEN Alistair Steele talks to relative of crash victim Three passenger cars nearest the front were packed with immigrants, many of them Scottish and Irish, and many having arrived in Montreal earlier that same morning aboard the S.S. Pretorian. The ship had sailed from Glasgow 10 days earlier but for its weary passengers, the journey was far from over. The 10 cars (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.