<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Marty:</div><div>The best manufacture to produce the NS business train would be Broadway Limited.</div><div>The are doing the Union Pacific business cars, so the logical next project would be the NS cars due</div><div>the popularity of the NS following. I would contact them and suggest it to them. If enough NS modelers contact them </div><div>it may well get done.</div><div>Stephen Rineair </div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"NW Modeling List" <nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org><br><b>To: </b>"NW Modeling List" <nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org><br><b>Cc: </b>"NW Modeling List" <nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, June 2, 2025 3:41:21 PM<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">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. </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><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-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</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </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:</p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">N&W #100 1950s tuscan, no stripes</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">N&W #100 1970s tuscan with stripes</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">N&W #100 "POCAHONTAS" 1970s/80s tuscan with stripes</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Norfolk Southern #7 "POCAHONTAS" 1980s</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Conrail #5 dark green 1990s</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Norfolk Southern #7 "PENNSYLVANIA" 2000s</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </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.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Marty Flick</p><p>-----------------------------------------</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">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</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></div><br>________________________________________<br>NW-Modeling-List@nwhs.org<br>To change your subscription go to<br>https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/options/nw-modeling-list<br>Browse the NW-Modeling-List archives at<br>https://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/nw-modeling-list/<br></div></div></body></html>