Fwd: Car Listing for Powhatan Arrow / Pocahontas

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General William Mahone (493) and Frederick J. Kimball (494) were lightweight 
Pullman built diners for the Pocahontas (identical to 491 & 492 for the Powhatan 
Arrow). The rest of the named cars were sleepers, mostly Budd built (20 of 
them), three Pullman built lightweights (Buchanan, McDowell & Sussex Counties), 
and your decal probably has some names for heavyweight sleepers. On the Powhatan 
Arrow, 501 & 502 were coach-locker cars, 511 & 512 were two compartment coaches, 
and 531-540 were straight coaches. 491 & 492 wwere diners and 581 &582 were 
observations. All were Pullman built in 1949. The Pocahontas then got the 1941 
Pullman built coaches 1723-1734 and three which had been converted to 
tavern-lounge-dorms (1720-1722). Each Pocahontas consist had 3 Budd built 
sleepers (west of Roanoke. Just one east of there) and one heavyweight 
10-section-lounge which was painted in N&W livery but still lettered for 
Pullman. There was a 60 foor RPO and a few other head end cars (railway express 
and mail storage). All the head end cars were heavyweights. Hope this helps.   
Jim Nichols




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Sent: Sun, September 19, 2010 8:54:37 PM
Subject: Fwd: Car Listing for Powhatan Arrow / Pocahontas

Gentlemen:
 
I am trying to model the POWHATAN ARROW / POCAHONTAS in N scale.  I recently 
bought a set of the nice decals from your online site.  Now, I am in search of a 
car list for the post World War II cars that would have been pulled by the J 
series locos.  I am interested in the following info:
 
Car Manufacturer:          Budd, Pullman, etc
 
Car Types:                    Coaches, Dining, Baggage, RPO, Observation, etc.
 
Car Numbers:                For instance, #581 is a lounge-tavern-observation 
car
 
Car Names:                   I am especially interested in the name cars which 
all I have been able to uncover is that they were sleepers
 
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
 
Steve Pohlmann
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