Show claims first sleeping car that tho 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 in the canadian national railway magazine the plan for a sleeping car was prepared in 1859 in preparation for the visit of the then prince of wales later to become edward VII and the actual construction st was carried out at brantford ont in a plant later used for malleable nal leable iron castings for passenger and freight cars |