N&W business car #1

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Please see the attached roster of former NKP passenger cars on the the
N&W.  It was NKP Business Car #1 that became N&W #1, was re-numbered N&W
#103 and sold to a private owner in 1971.

Bill King

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Subject: N&W business car #1

On page 97 of Morning Sun's "Trackside Around Eastern Ohio With Dave
McKay", there is a picture of an N&W heavyweight observation car, likely a
business car, numbered 1. All N&W business cars I am familiar with carried
a 3 digit number. A quick online search turned up only one photograph:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4521131

This is of the opposite side of the car as the picture in the book, and the
only major difference is the car in the book does not have the modernized
roof. It is painted tuscan red with "NORFOLK AND WESTERN", but no striping,
matching the steam era/pre-merger scheme. The car has a heavyweight look
with rivets. There appears to be a vestibule at the front of the car. The
photograph is dated August 21, 1965, at Conneaut, OH. It is on the rear of
a short passenger train, with two streamlined cars (likely coaches or
sleepers) and a heavyweight baggage ahead of it. The picture is at a sharp
angle, so it could be an optical illusion, but the other cars do not appear
to be tuscan.

Does anyone know what this car is? The business car roster in Vol 5 #1 of
the Arrow does not list it, nor can I find it in the Morning Sun N&W
Equipment Guide.

Marty Flick
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