<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Attached is the index to the NS Office cars that I have from the official NS "Passenger Equipment Diagram Book" 1993.</div><div>Stephen Rineair</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org><br><b>To: </b>"NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org><br><b>Cc: </b>"NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, May 23, 2025 6:53:19 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>RE: Former N&W Business Cars in Norfolk Southern Service<br></div><div><br><style><!--
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--></style></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">Bill,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">Here are the former NW cars I know of: Photos of the ones NS still uses are on this link: <a href="https://www.altoonaworks.info/pics/ocs.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.altoonaworks.info/pics/ocs.html</a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"><br>NS 3 (Claytor Lake) is the former NW 500 (Claytor Lake). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">Ex NS 4 (Lamberts Point) was the former NW 200 (Lamberts Point). It did wear NS colors for a short time before being sold. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">Ex NS 5 (Roanoke) is the former NW 300 (Roanoke). It’s been procured and restored to its NW (Roanoke) appearance. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nw300.org/photos/?ref=page_internal" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Norfolk and Western Business Car 300 Preservation Society Inc. | Facebook</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">NS 7 (Pennsylvania) is the former NW 100 (Pocahontas), the first all steel car NW purchased from Pullman.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">Ex NS 10 (Hollins College) was the former NW 451 (Hollins College). It’s being procured to be restored to its NW (Hollins College) appearance. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nw300.org/photos/?ref=page_internal" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Norfolk and Western Business Car 300 Preservation Society Inc. | Facebook</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">NS 12 (Indiana) was the former NW 450. It was originally one of the NW diner cars built by Pullman in 1949.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">NS 18 (New Orleans) is the former NW 493 diner</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">NS 19 (Kentucky) is the former NW 494 diner<br>Ex NS 24 (Alta Vista) is the former NW 800 theater (track inspection) car. It eventually went to Illinois Central before being merged into CN, who I believe still operates this car. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">NS 28 is the former NW 501 coach</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">NS 29 is the former NW 533 coach</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">Hopes this helps.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">Phil Miller</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1pt;padding:3pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list-bounces@nwhs.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 22, 2025 6:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org>; NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org><br><b>Cc:</b> NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Former N&W Business Cars in Norfolk Southern Service</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">Fred Hill at the Coach Yard is thinking about producing Norfolk Southern Office cars in HO scale brass.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">I only model the Norfolk and Western. I do not model the Norfolk Southern.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">If he is going to produce <span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt">Norfolk Southern Office cars, I will ask if he could consider making any earlier N&W versions.</span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.25pt">Unfortunately, I have absolutely no knowledge of Norfolk Southern Office cars or if any were former N&W business cars. For all I know the Norfolk Southern Office cars used on inspection trips came from the Southern Railway and have no N&W heritage. Or maybe they were acquired from other sources well after 1982. At least I do know that the diesel cab units powering the NS inspection trains have no Norfolk and Western DNA.</span><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif">I sure could use a list of <span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt">Norfolk Southern Office cars and their previous N&W number. Pictures would also be great.</span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.25pt">Thanks in advance.</span><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.25pt">Bill King</span><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.25pt">Arlington, Virginia</span><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif"> </span></p></div></div></div><br>________________________________________<br>NW-Mailing-List@nwhs.org<br>To change your subscription go to<br>https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list<br>Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at<br>https://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/<br></div></div></body></html>