N&W Practice on Passenger Car Ventilation

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I think this was standard equipment for the cars stored at the end of the car 


Larry Evans

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> On Oct 18, 2019, at 2:09 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> The early operating Rule Books made it clear that the trainmen on passenger trains were responsible for lighting and adjusting the oil lamps and handling the ventilation in coaches, as well as the coal stoves.
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> Much, much to my chagrin, I do not recall seeing an N&W coach or Pullman which had oil illumination and clerestory ventilators.  (Such may have been used on the Blacksburg Branch mixed trains, but they transcended my youthful observational skills.)
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> So, yesterday's Steamtown release of a 1932 photograph of the interior a Lackawanna coach raised a question.
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> With those clerestory ventilators up so high, the trainman obviously needed a pole with a hook (or similar) device on the end, for releasing the latches and raising and lowering the metal doors.
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> I never saw reference in any N&W literature to such a device or tool for use by the trainmen.  Have you seen such...?  What were they called?  Were they a standard item which the trainman picked up at the beginning of each run, like markers, lanterns and flagging equipment?
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