The Cavalier Drumhead (Rear Tail Sign)

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Bill

To the best of my knowledge, the Cavalier nor the Pocahontas carried a drum head in regular service. Discounting the Southern trains, Birmingham Special, Memphis Special, Pelican, only the Powhatan Arrow with new equipment carried any kind of drum head. 

The Cavalier and Pocahontas both had cars switched in and out during their route during the heyday, and that means moving a drumhead around a lot.

I don’t know where Tomar came up with that design, it has nothing to do with anything I’ve seen documentation on N&W.

Ken Miller

> On Oct 22, 2019, at 8:34 PM, NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to model N&W's passenger train, The Cavalier.  In real life, it always ran a poor third compared to The Powhatan Arrow and The Pocahontas.  I guess that's why it interests me so much.  But information about it is very hard to come by.
> 
> I've found a company (Tomar Industries) on-line that makes Drumheads (or rear passenger car tail logos) of passenger trains.  The rear tail sign for The Cavalier that they offer is so unbelievably crude and childish that I can't believe it was actually used on an N&W passenger train.  I've attached a copy of the logo that they offer for everyone to inspect.
> 
> I have two questions that I need answers to: Is the Cavalier drumhead offered by Tomar Industries the actual logo that N&W used?  And, if not, what did the real Cavalier drumhead look like?
> 
> Bill King
> Arlington, Virginia
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