N&W heavyweight sleeping cars

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Thanks for the info.  But who do we have to thank?

Sam Putney

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>I don't know if this is the first definitive evidence, but it is definitive 

>including the brown roof, in my opinion.  I personally saw a tuscan N&W 

>heavyweight Pullman about 1961 deadheading west on the headend of B&O train 

>17 aka The Cleveland Night Express.  Don't know where the car was going as 

>#17 split off cars at Cumberland for Grafton and Parkersburg, I think.  I 

>do not know the name or the car type of what I saw, but it was lettered 

>Norfolk and Western.

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>> Would this be the first definitive evidence that Pullman cars that 

>> reverted to N&W in the late '40's were painted in N&W scheme?  Or at 

>> least one of them.  I have only ever heard speculation about this, but no 

>> actual proof.

>>

>> Sam Putney

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>>> --- On Wed, 5/14/08, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

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>>>> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>> Subject: N&W heavyweight sleeping cars

>>>> To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>> Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 8:03 AM

>>>> The Summer '08 issue of Classic Trains magazine features

>>>> articles on Pullman operations.  On page 56 there is a color

>>>> picture of N&W Cuttyhunk taken in Orlando, Florida in

>>>> 1955.  The car looks great in N&W tuscan with brown

>>>> roof.

>>>>

>>>> --Rick Morrison

>>>

>>> =====================================

>>> Rick,

>>>

>>> Thanks for the heads up! I just got a new airbrush, so this will be a 

>>> great reference photo for when I paint up my pullman sleepers.

>>>

>>> Mark Peele

>>> Catonsville, MD

>>>

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>>> N&W in N scale

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