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The time of day the photo was made is late afternoon, which is more in line with 46. No. 4 would have been arriving mid morning, unless running really late, which is not outside the realm of possible, but I sort of doubt.

However, what gives it away as not being No. 4 is a lack of RPO behind the storage mail cars, it appears to be a heavyweight PG coach as the first car, which leads me to think it was a labor car.

With the July 1954 date on this image, 9-10 were still running just particularly heavy headend business on this day, believed to be a Friday.

Ken Miller

On Sep 22, 2015, at 9:55 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:

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> Joseph:
> N&W and Southern pooled equipment for use on
> The Tennessean, and the result was a conglomeration
> of cars from both roads.  Train Nos. 9 -10
> had handled head end traffic Monroe (later cut back
> to Roanoke)-Bristol, but when these trains were
> cancelled, that traffic was passed on to Nos. 45-46.
> Consequently, it wasn't unusual to find PRR, N&W,
> Railway Express, Southern (stainless steel) and
> equipment from other roads riding first out behind
> the Class J.                  Harry Bundy
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