Location Guesses?

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The NWHS archives has a "tinted" version of this photo. On the photo it
shows "Bruce D. Fales Photo" (text under the passenger cars).

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=96862

I updated the archives database entry with the info supplied by Ken & Rick.
(Thanks!)

- Roger Link


On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 5:23 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Ken Miller is correct.  In checking a 1937 N&W timetable the Memphis
> Special
> is the only Southern train which could be photographed in the Roanoke
> vacinity in daylight.  Both the Birmingham Special (17-18) and the New
> York,
> Chattanooga and New Orleans Limited (41-42) passed through Roanoke either
> after dark or very early in the morning.  The new streamlined Tennessean
> replaced the Memphis Special on much the same schedule except eastbound
> its
> Roanoke stop was about 3 hours earlier in the afternoon.  Number 41-42 was
> renamed The Pelican in the late 1940's.
>
> --Rick Morrison
>
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> > Hello, all:
> >
> > The attached 1940 photo appears to be the consist of either the Pelican
> or
> > the Tennessean.
> >
> > Happy holidays,
> >
> > Frank Scheer
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