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Show Claims First Sleeping Car That the first sleeping car to be built and placed in actual service on this continent was designed and made in Canada is stated in an article ar-ticle in the Canadian National Railway Rail-way Magazine. The plan for a sleeping sleep-ing car was prepared in 1859 in preparation prep-aration for the visit of the then Prince of Wales, later to become Edward VII, and the actual construction con-struction was carried out at Brant-lord, Brant-lord, Orrt., in a plant later used for malleable iron castings for passenger passen-ger and freight cars. |