Location Guesses?

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Jim,

I know that in the late 1950s and 1960s the cars of the Southern/N&W trains retained their individual markings on all of these trains (N&W Tuscan red, Southern very dark green or a few stainless steel). Mail and express cars from many railroads showed up on these trains , the most predominant were the Pennsy box express cars.

   Ray Smoot

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On Dec 16, 2020, at 10:14 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


So all the Southern cars got tinted red instead of green.

Jim Nichols

On Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 08:07:40 PM CST, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


The NWHS archives has a "tinted" version of this photo. On the photo it shows "Bruce D. Fales Photo" (text under the passenger cars).

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=96862

I updated the archives database entry with the info supplied by Ken & Rick. (Thanks!)

- Roger Link


On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 5:23 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org<mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
Ken Miller is correct.  In checking a 1937 N&W timetable the Memphis Special
is the only Southern train which could be photographed in the Roanoke
vacinity in daylight.  Both the Birmingham Special (17-18) and the New York,
Chattanooga and New Orleans Limited (41-42) passed through Roanoke either
after dark or very early in the morning.  The new streamlined Tennessean
replaced the Memphis Special on much the same schedule except eastbound its
Roanoke stop was about 3 hours earlier in the afternoon.  Number 41-42 was
renamed The Pelican in the late 1940's.

--Rick Morrison

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> Hello, all:
>
> The attached 1940 photo appears to be the consist of either the Pelican or
> the Tennessean.
>
> Happy holidays,
>
> Frank Scheer
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