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Thanks for the information Ken.

    Dick Dunford

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> Hi Dick

>

> Since no one has responded, I'll pass on what I know.

>

> Your cards are totally legitimate and my box matches your description, The 

> illustration on the cards was done by Edward Walton, an illustrator that 

> the N&W used several times. The painting, or one quite like it, was also 

> used on the April 1946 N&W Magazine about the Powhatan Arrow.

>

> I've been unable to find anything with a casual search on Walton, what 

> else he may have done, and for whom. He also did the painting of a boy 

> watching the Powhatan Arrow from a hillside that was used on the "Along 

> the Line" points of interest brochure that was available onboard the 

> trains.

>

> The location of the painting is based on a publicity photo of a Class J 

> and train that was retouched and the background was replaced to show the 

> Peaks of Otter. The actual train photo was taken at the west end of the 

> Roanoke Yard, in front of the Veterans Hospital. I showed both original 

> and retouched photos in my Class J book on page 37. There is no place that 

> remotely allows the photo of the Peaks on the N&W. The original photo was 

> taken on March 24, 1942.

>

> The cards are a nice addition to your collection, they are certainly not 

> the most common variation of them

>

> Ken Miller

>

> On Oct 7, 2013, at 1:38 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

>

>> Could anyone supply me any information about a set of playing cards that 

>> I have?

>>

>> There are two decks - one with a tuscan  border, and the other with 

>> green. The picture is a J (number not readable) pulling 7 smoothside cars 

>> (no head-end cars).  The background is mountains, and in the lower left 

>> corner there is water.

>>

>> At the top right above the locomotive is "Norfolk and Western" in script 

>> with "RAILWAY" in a smaller sans-serif font below.  Below the locomotive 

>> it says "Route of" in script, with '"The POCAHONTAS" AND "THE POWHATAN 

>> ARROW"' in the sans-serif font..

>>

>> In the water appears to be the word "Walton".  Don't know if that is 

>> meant to be the artist name, or the location.

>>

>> I don't know if the two-deck box is original or not.  The top is covered 

>> in a red velvet-like material, and the bottom in silver paper.  Stamped 

>> into to bottom of the box is "PATENT PENDING, BROWN & BIGELOW, ST.PAUL, 

>> MINNESOTA".

>>

>> Dick Dunford

>>

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