Vestibules on passenger cars

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Mike

Generally speaking, you had vestibules trailing to make it easier for the engineer to spot more cars (i.e. more vestibules) on the platform. Conductors would generally try and have passengers for short-haul in certain cars, long-haul in other cars, and with a Conductor and Trainman, you generally only wanted to open as few a vestibules as necessary, and you wanted all of them on the platform.

Best
Ken Miller

> On Sep 3, 2024, at 11:46 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> What would be the benefit of having it trailing?
> Mike Rector
> 
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 10:52 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> Walter
> 
> As Jim said, it was not always trailing, but that was the desired set up if possible. On occasion, when the opportunity appeared, they might even turn a car to keep it trailing. I know when I was dealing with setting up consists for excursion trains, I would always specify to have vestibules trailing. I doubt even 10 percent of today’s railroaders even would know what we are talking about!
> 
> Best
> Ken
> 
> > On Sep 3, 2024, at 10:00 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> > Thanks Ken.  I'm just hoping to get my consists in order.  This helps.
> > Walter Davis
> > On 9/2/2024 10:04 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> >> Walter
> >> 
> >> Generally from what I’ve seen, vestibules were trailing, or to the rear if possible.
> >> 
> >> Best
> >> Ken Miller
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On Sep 2, 2024, at 7:30 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> >>> Did the N&W have a preferred way to orient the vestibules on their passenger cars, either towards the front of the train or towards the rear?
> >>> Walter Davis, Youngsville, NC
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