Canadian Vickers - Railcar

Railcar

Canadair used the former Canadian Vickers plant briefly to build rail cars in the 1960s and 1970s during the period of turmoil at the shipyard in Montreal. The rail car products were mostly built on contract from other rail car builders or as joint production effort.

  • PATCO II railcars 1979 were manufactured by Canadian Vickers under a license from Budd
  • M2 (railcar) 1972-1977 - was built by Canadian Vickers and General Electric for Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York) and Connecticut Department of Transportation
  • Commuter Cab Car (Bi-level coaches and gallery cars) 1960s - was built for Canadian Pacific Railway (Town Cars) and a variant of the Pullman Company Gallery coaches; re-classified as AMT 900 series cars
  • MR-63 1963-1967 - were Metro cars built for the Montreal Metro which opened in 1966 and were based on GEC Alsthom's MP 59 for the Paris Metro

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