N&W business car assignments

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But it didn't receive the name "The Exporter" until sometime after the 
1964 merger. It was simply #400. N&W 300 was still carrying the name 
"The Exporter" in Nov. 1965. By May 1969 the name had been transferred 
to the ex-Wabash car (I don't know just when). 300 probably didn't get 
the name Roanoke until the return of red paint in 1971 (but I don't know 
that - only guessing)  Jim Nichols

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> Marty:

> I believe EXPORTER was built in Wabash's De Crater Shops.

> It was a lightweight business car which N&W inherited in the

> '64 merger.  In 1956, it was probably assigned to W.K.Atkinson,

> president of the Wabash.

>  

> In 1954, De Crater Shops also built ADOLPHUS,  a lightweight

> private car for Anhueser-Busch.  In 1965 ADOLPHUS became

> PRR 1000.

>  

>                                                      Harry Bundy

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