Anyone know what train this is?

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/DUPLICATE-RAILROAD-SLIDE-
NORFOLK-WESTERN-RAILWAY-604-Radford-VIRGINIA-steam-/132061718429?hash=
item1ebf7de79d:g:QrYAAOSw-0xYdq3X
I have never seen anything on the idea of the N&W running a mail and
express train but this shot has shown up on eBay so I have to ask... does
anyone know what the identity (name... number?) of this train?  Really
curious that it is heavy with head-end cars and only one coach.
TIA
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jerry
<jmlaboda at passcarphotos.info>
<mailto:jmlaboda at gmail.com>

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 20:46:49 +0000
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This may be No. 9, the nameless mail and express local that ran between
Roanoke and Bristol until about 1958.  It left Roanoke behind No. 41 (the
Pelican) and stopped at almost every station between Roanoke and Bristol.
Until the early 1950s, it actually originated at Monroe (north of Lynchburg
on the Southern) and moved to the N&W at Montview/Kinny.

Ray Smoot

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Hello, all:

The eBay description mentioning that this is train 23 is inaccurate.  Train
9, as Ray states, appears in the WASHINGTON & BRISTOL RPO schedule page
from 1955, attached.  Some of the equipment in the consist may be deadhead
movements.

Good morning,

Frank

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