Over the holidays, I was looking through my parents-in-law's photo albums and found these two snaps that were taken in Ottawa in 1974.

(don't quite have the hang of it yet)

Oops! Here is the second shot-
CP Air was one of many sister companies of CP Rail during the '70's & '80's, the Multimark years. I believe it was taken over by Air Canada about ten years ago.

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That is very interesting.

Ah yes bring back the days of CP Air and Ward Air and well Air Canaada can go fly away.Service AC has never been strong on.Great shots and one would be surprised at whats found in the old snap book album.

yeah i remember reading somewhere that CP used this to ship worldwide... instead of putting their valuable freight on, and pay a different company, they saved the money and shipped it themselves. They had connections to Britain, Germany, China, Russia, and I think one or two African countries...

Very interesting, never knew there was a CP air!

There was also CP Ships, CP Hotels and CP Mines.

Cheers Tony

That is very interesting that CP had an air system and about its ship system I know that some of its ocean liners had the word Empress then the name of a country or a continent. For example Empress of Ireland and Empress of Asia.

Seems like CP Air also had some DC-10's didn't they?

IIRC didn't the Santa Fe have an airline as well (or at least planes w/ Santa Fe lettering??)

And then of course we have Pan Am who went from being one of the biggest airlines in the USA (not to say the world) to a small regional railroad in the northeastern USA...

I don't know about ATSF, but BN had a air freight division for a while.

I have a book on the CP Airlines aroud here somewhere...

The same famous PanAm Airlines is now a railroad? WITW?

...And then, of course, there is UP Air...
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I am not going to comment on this one

I would love to see a locomotive do that. Actually there are Virgin trains, planes, phones, space craft, cola.......

Cheers Tony

Well, I read in a 7 year old issue of TRAINS that a Santa Fe F3A flew over the edge of a bridge in Los Angeles in the 1940s...

Ah, I remember that issue. Twas' a good story.

hmmmmmmmmm...the yellow plague is an airborne virus too....

CG

Now that's just hilarious and scary!!