N&W in 1910--Dining cars

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These WERE wood cars, bought second hand from the Pennsy , numbered in the
1000 series. N&W class RC and RD (later DC and DD ?) They were, of course,
replaced by the steel cars (DE, 1210-etc.) Some of them (if not all) ended
up in MofW service.   Jim Nichols

 

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
March 1, 1910

 

IN CITY AND COALFIELD

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New Dining Cars

    The Norfolk and Western expects to receive in a short time seven new
dining cars of the latest improved heavy type which will be put in service.
All but two of the present cars will be converted to other uses while the
two cars to be retained will be used for extra work in case one of the new
cars is put in for repairs.  The cars will be used on the regular trains
which now have a dining car service.

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[The pride in the "heavy type" is in contrast to the pride in lightweight
passenger cars several decades later.  These seven 1910 diners may have been
wooden cars because they did not survive (like some 1914 diners) to be
listed in a 1950's MP Data Book, which listed these dining cars:  3 De,
1012--1014 inc., ACF, 1914--1915;  7 De, 1015--1021, Pullman 1923;  3 De
1022--1024, Pullman 1927;  and 4 D1, 491--494, Pullman 1949.]

 

Gordon Hamilton

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