Passenger Exchange N&W to PRR

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 From what I've read about the Hagerstown interchange, the sleeper was 
transferred but coach passengers transferred themselves to other coaches.

Jeff Cornelius

nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:


> On Train 2, the northbound from Roanoke to Hagerstown, MD, there was a 

> through sleeper to New York.  I've also seen mention in public 

> timetables that there was coach service to Harrisburg.  So it seems 

> very likely that the entire train could have been handed over to PRR 

> at Hagerstown, with the reverse move becoming N&W Train 1 southbound.

>  

> Anyone know more about this?

>  

> Jim Brewer

>

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>     I seem to remember (as a young boy in the late 40's) that in

>     Hagerstown, MD,

>     arriving N&W trains would remove the engine, connect a Pennsy

>     engine & pull

>     most of the cars north.

>      

>     The converse was true - Pennsy engines would disconnect from

>     southbound trains & N&W engines would connect & head south.

>      

>     Someone may know exactly which trains & which cars were

>     "pulled-thru" but in an earlier time this is my 55 years ago memory.

>      

>     Also, a big thank you to Tom Cosgrove, Jim Brewer & Phil Miller

>     for providing information about scanner frequencies.

>      

>     Terry Marshall

>     Hagerstown, MD 

>

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