N&W coach in Hopewell destroyed

NW Mailing List nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
Sat Apr 12 22:28:03 EDT 2008


I was just in Hopewell tonight for the Model RR club meeting and
looked over under sixth street bridge to glance at the N&W coach and
noticed that it had ben completely burned out! The fire was apparently
so hot that the roof was collapsed. The car was donated to a group in
Petersburg headed by Dick Whiting. They eventually got Jack Showalter
who ran the Virginia Central to take the car and put it into service
on his excursion train in Staunton.
However the car would not pass interchange inspection due to a cracked
sideframe. So it sat in the CSX yard for years until it was recently
moved back to NS. Some vandals set it on fire a few days ago. Now its
only good for scrap!

Walt


More information about the NW-Mailing-List mailing list