Train with a Passenger Car in Rear
BCA Photograph No. 75118
BCA Negative No. D-8775
Photo in Onderdonk Album, #1, p. 49. (BCA Accession No. 98401-6)

The locomotive is #7, the Kamloops. The photograph was probably taken after May of 1884 when the new locomotives arrived and Onderdonk operated a service on the line until the CPR took over the various government sections in July of 1886. Although a caption identifies the passenger car in the rear of the consist as Onderdonk's private car, 'Eva', it is more likely to be one of the passenger cars Onderdonk had built in his Yale Shops to accommodate passenger traffic after the rails enabled such traffic from Port Moody to Yale, and eventually to Savona's Ferry. The building of passenger coaches is mentioned in The Inland Sentinel of March 13, 1884.

An 1884 timetable is in the collection of the City of Vancouver Archives and dates from the time when service was provided from Port Moody to Mill Flat, five miles above Lytton. A close-up of Onderdonk's Private Car shows the profile of his car (with its 12 windows) and that of the passenger coach shown here (with its 15 windows) to be different. The car behind the locomotive's tender is probably the Mail Car, and that behind it a tool car possibly used here to transport freight.