What is a "partition coach"

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Since we are in 1953, would this be a 'Jim Crow' car?

Bill Smith
Atlanta

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Subject: What is a "partition coach"

Good afternoon:

I was looking at the attached page from a 1953 N&W
Consist Book.  Trains 25 and 26 included a "partition
coach" which I am unfamilar with.  It is also the only
train which included a schematic for aligning
vestibules.  Also, unlike other pages, it is missing
the notes A through F.

I'd welcome information about what a partition coach
was or other aspects about the car alignment in the
consist.

Thank you,

Frank Scheer
f_scheer at yahoo.com