carder

Le texte parle d'une famille qui partait l'été, en train, de Montréal jusqu'au Nouveau Brunswick, dans les années 30.
Je pense qu'il y a une erreur de transcription dans le mot "carder", que faut-il comprendre selon vous? Et de quoi s'agit-il?
Et "berth" fait-il référence à des lits superposés? Les enfants étaient dans des couchettes?

Elle dit: WE ALL CAME DOWN ON THE TRAIN. AND OUR PARENTS HAD THE COMPARTMENTS,THE CHILDREN WERE IN THE CARDER, YOU KNOW,THE UPPER AND LOWER BERTHS.

Ce que je comprends: les parents ont des compartiments privés, mais si c'est le cas, how would the following situation be possible?
A LOT OF THE MOTHERS HAD PEKINESE DOGS AND THEY ALL HATED EACH OTHER, AND WE PUT SUITCASES UP IN THE AISLE SORT OF TO PREVENT THE FIGHTS.

I took a "sleeper train" with my kids in western Canada many years ago and there were upper and lower berths -- lits superposés, as you say -- arranged to either side of the central aisle. So if the train that this writer is talking about was arranged the same way, it would have been possible to sleep in berths and to put suitcases in the aisle during the day. I don't have any idea what the "carder" is -- it doesn't seem to be a misspelling of "corridor."

Thank you so much Dr Bahai!!! Now I understand how you can sleep in berths and have a central aisle as well. I don't know this kind of train, so it seemed strange to me. Now that I'm thinking of it, it's probably something like the train of "someone likes it hot"...
And you were right about too! I listened very careful to my document, and that what she says (and not this strange "carder" written on my script!). You saved my day! 👁 Big Grin :D