Domed Cars

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Fri Apr 20 17:55:25 EDT 2007


Any Pictures?...Ken Tanner

----- Original Message -----
From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:40 am
Subject: Domed Cars
To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org


> Yes they ran a domed car on the Powhatan Arrow and later on the

> Pocahontas. The public timetables for April 1967, October 1967

> and April 1968 shows a Dome Chair Car, Coaches and a Dining Lounge

> Car for the Powhatan Arrow. The June 1969, December 1969 and

> August 1970 public timetables show a dome car on the Pocahontas

> (the Powhatan Arrow being discontinued at that point) which was

> operated until the arrival of Amtrak in 1971.

>

> Rodney

>

>

>

> > ----- Original Message -----

> > From: NW Mailing List

> > To: mailing-list at nwhs.org

> > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:16 AM

> > Subject: Domed Passenger Cars

> >

> >

> > Question -

> >

> > Did the Norfolk & Western every use any of the Domed Passenger

> cars on

> >any of their regular passenger trains? I realize that they

> "inherited" some

> >from the Wabash after their merger, but I am asking specifically

> about

> >either the Powhatan rrow, or the Pocahontas.

> >

> > Thanks

> >

> > Frank Jefferson

> >



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