What is a "partition coach"

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The "partition coaches" may have been "Jim Crow" coaches from the era of 
segregation. Whites rode on one end, blacks on the other. The last one I can 
remember seeing in service was on an L&N/Seaboard passenger/mail/express train I 
rode on from Flomaton, Ala. to Jacksonville, Fla. in late 1964 while in the Air 
Force.

Greg Harrod

In a message dated 1/22/2008 5:27:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:



> 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

> 





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