N&W Pj coach

[NW Mailing List]

Hello Jim,

Thank you! Images of your model #1702 are attached, I'll post to the 
modeling list and please chime in with particulars.

Grant Carpenter

On 8/5/2024 9:48 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> So far as I know, no HO models of the PJ have ever been produced. I 
> kitbashed one for Grant Carpenter a few years ago, as they ran on 23 
> and 24.
>
> Jim Nichols
On 8/5/2024 2:46 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
> Have any HO scale models of the N&W PJ coach been produced? The 
> Virginian Railway leased # 1702  & 1703 for a short time after the 
> Virginian State Corporation rule that the VGN must make a sincere 
> effort to increase ridership by offering improved equipment (from 
> Aubrey Wiley's Virginian Railway Memories). Thanks, Bob Cook 
> Chesapeake, VA
>
> On 8/5/2024 3:16 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>>
>> Two photos of N&W Pj coaches built circa 1935 by Bethlehem Steel.
>>
>> The broadside is of 1709 is in Hagerstown on train 13, late 1940’s. 
>> Phil Soring Collection.
>>
>> The second photo is early 1950’s of train 4, The Pocahontas, in 
>> Petersburg, VA.
>>
>> The Pj coach ran through Washington-Norfolk: RF&P 375 to Richmond, 
>> ACL 27 to Petersburg,
>>
>> and N&W 4 to Norfolk. Ahead of the Pj is S1 10-6 sleeper, Pullman 
>> 10-section lounge car,
>>
>> and D1 diner. At the time of the photo, the two Pullmans ran 
>> Chicago-Norfolk.
>>
>> This photo is an eBay find.
>>
>> --Rick Morrison
>>
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