Post-64 Head End Cars

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Thanks for the consist Harry.  I've never heard of boxcars in the Pocahontas' consist.  Are there any photos of this happening? 

Also, how frequently were ex-NKP and Wabash cars seen on the "original" N&W?

-Evan Miller

> On May 17, 2017, at 4:15 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Evan:
> Here's Radford Division #4 arriving Roanoke July 18, 1970
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> N&W 518 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -EMD GP9
> N&W 519 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  EMD GP9
> N&W 1279 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Baggage (ex-NKP)
> N&W 1321 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Baggage (BEg)
> N&W 1401 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Mail Storage (MS)
> N&W  501 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Coach (P1)
> N&W 1611 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Vista-Dome Coach
> N&W  538  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Coach (P3)
> N&W Sussex County - - - - - - - - - - -  10 Rmtte., 6 DBR Pullman
> N&W  400 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Office Car (XO)
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> It wasn't unusual to see hy-cube box cars in No. 4's consist.  They
> were easily identified as Ford "shut down" cars.  Seems there were
> some tax advantages, so Ford believed in a "just in time" inventory.
> Ford parts en route to the Norfolk Plant would arrive in No. 86 at
> Portlock and be spotted to be used on the assembly line the same
> day.  So if a parts car was mishandled or bad ordered, it was
> expedited to Norfolk in No. 4 (and maybe No. 26) to avoid shutting
> the assembly line down.
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> At one time, the Norfolk plant got a  new manager and it seems every
> Friday, the assembly line would be short a parts car.  Ford would fly
> the parts in. to avoid a shut down.  It developed that the plant manager
> never moved his family from Detroit and he would  get a "freeby" flight on
> the parts plane.                                                   Harry Bundy
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