Former N&W Business Cars in Norfolk Southern Service

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I’m not certain, but I believe that the NS7 Pocahontas was only on paper. I don’t believe the car was painted NS before being sold to Conrail. 

Phil Miller

 

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Just as a follow-up on the N&W/NS business cars discussion, if anyone has any contacts with a plastic model train manufacturer or wants to offer suggestions to one like Walthers or Broadway Limited, N&W business car #100 is an interesting choice because it can be painted correctly for 3 roadnames in multiple paint schemes:

 

N&W #100 1950s tuscan, no stripes

N&W #100 1970s tuscan with stripes

N&W #100 "POCAHONTAS" 1970s/80s tuscan with stripes

Norfolk Southern #7 "POCAHONTAS" 1980s

Conrail #5 dark green 1990s

Norfolk Southern #7 "PENNSYLVANIA" 2000s

 

I do not recall seeing pictures of it in N&W blue nor Conrail blue, but I suppose those are also possibilities.  The basic look of the car hasn't changed much since it was rebuilt by N&W to give it a streamlined appearance, so a single tooling would likely work for all 3 railroads.

 

Marty Flick

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Subject: Former N&W Business Cars in Norfolk Southern Service

Fred Hill at the Coach Yard is thinking about producing Norfolk Southern Office cars in HO scale brass.

 

I only model the Norfolk and Western.  I do not model the Norfolk Southern.

 

If he is going to produce Norfolk Southern Office cars, I will ask if he could consider making any earlier N&W versions.

 

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.

 

I sure could use a list of Norfolk Southern Office cars and their previous N&W number.  Pictures would also be great.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Bill King

Arlington, Virginia

 

 

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