N&W 1300 series Baggage Express cars

[NW Modeling List]

After 1300 was rebuilt into the Safety First Car, the series was 1301 to 
1336.  Jim Nichols

NW Modeling List wrote:


> Does anyone know now may cars were in the 1300 series of Baggage Express

> cars class BEg?  The N&W handbook by Wallace and Wiley shows a picture of

> #1306 and below it a picture of an Athearn baggage car mis-identified 

> as a

> class BMf.  Its hard to make out the number on the Athearn.  The 

> Athearn car

> seems to be about the closest model available of a 1300, except it is

> one-two scale feet short, and the doors are too far apart.  Warden's book

> about N&W Passenger Service 1946-1971 fails to even identify the class 

> even

> though there are numerous pictures of these cars showing up in the 

> Cavalier

> and Pocahantas not to mention locals or other trains.

>

> Bob Folsom

> Clemson, South Carolina

> Modeling the N&W between Bluefield and Lynchburg late 1940's

>

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