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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Phil Miller<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> NW-Modeling-List <nw-modeling-list-bounces@nwhs.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>NW Modeling List<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 2, 2025 11:21 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'NW Modeling List' <nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Former N&W Business Cars in Norfolk Southern Service<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>N&W #100 1950s tuscan, no stripes<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>N&W #100 1970s tuscan with stripes<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>N&W #100 "POCAHONTAS" 1970s/80s tuscan with stripes<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Norfolk Southern #7 "POCAHONTAS" 1980s<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Conrail #5 dark green 1990s<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Norfolk Southern #7 "PENNSYLVANIA" 2000s<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Marty Flick<o:p></o:p></p><p>-----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>From: "NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List" <br>To: "NW Mailing List", "NW Modeling List"<br>Cc: "NW Modeling List"<br>Sent: Friday May 23 2025 7:32:35AM<br>Subject: Former N&W Business Cars in Norfolk Southern Service<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>If he is going to produce <span style='letter-spacing:-.25pt'>Norfolk Southern Office cars, I will ask if he could consider making any earlier N&W versions.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.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'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></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:-.25pt'>Norfolk Southern Office cars and their previous N&W number. Pictures would also be great.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt'>Thanks in advance.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt'>Bill King</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt'>Arlington, Virginia</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>