Former N&W Business Cars in Norfolk Southern Service

Tue Jun 3 08:14:43 EDT 2025

Marty: 
The best manufacture to produce the NS business train would be Broadway Limited. 
The are doing the Union Pacific business cars, so the logical next project would be the NS cars due 
the popularity of the NS following. I would contact them and suggest it to them. If enough NS modelers contact them 
it may well get done. 
Stephen Rineair 

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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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