N&W in 1910--Dining cars

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From: James Nichols [mailto:jamesanichols at bellsouth.net] 
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Supplemental information: Dad's records show them as 1000 and 1001, class
RC, and 1002-1005 as class RD, built Pullman 1910 and purchased from the
Pennsylvania. The mystery is: how long did PRR own them, since N&W bought
them the same year they were built? Or maybe Dad was mistaken about the
built date. There is a picture of one of the PRR cars in Dubin's Some
Classic Trains. In any event, PRR was buying steel cars because of the new
Penn Station in New York, so were happy to unload these almost new wood
cars.      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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