Passenger Train Consists Lynchburg-Bristol

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Toney

This is fantastic stuff, this kind of information is so hard to find, as it was generally tossed when the person retired, or passed away.

You might be seeing some of this in a potential Arrow article!

Thanks for sharing it!

Best
Ken Miller

> On Feb 14, 2024, at 4:37 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> My great-grandfather, Walter Jennings, was the night foreman in the Roanoke coach yard from around 1920 until his retirement in the 1950s.  I inherited one of his notebooks that has consist information from Aug 27 through Sep 1 1947.
> Scans of his notebook are attached as a pdf.  I hope you find this helpful and useful.
> Toney Minter
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> <Aug 29 - Sep 1 1947.pdf>
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>> On Feb 13, 2024, at 8:31 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> While I’m not studying or modelling that time period, it’s still interesting to see this type of consist info. 
>> Phil Miller
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>> In “Passenger Train Consists of the 1940’s” I found this Tennessean consist:
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>> Southern train 45 westbound
>> Departing Knoxville, TN March 21, 1945
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>> SOU 1701 GRAND JUNCTION        Baggage-Mail car (LW)
>> SOU 1750 DECATUR                        Mail storage car   (LW)
>> SOU 705 BEDFORD                          Baggage- Dormitory-Coach (LW)
>> N&W 1705                                        Coach
>> N&W 1704                                        Coach
>> SOU 905 MORRISTOWN                 Coach (LW)
>> SOU 3304 ALEXANDRIA                  Dining car (LW)
>> SOU 806 HUNTSVILLE                      Coach (LW)
>> SOU 813 LYNCHBURG                      Coach (LW)
>> SOU 1150 WASHINGTON                Tavern-Lounge car (LW)
>> VILLA NOVA                                       10 Sections, 3 Double Bedrooms
>> BRENTWOOD                                     12 Sections, 1 Drawing Room
>> McRAE                                                 12 Sections, 1 Drawing Room
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>> The 10 Sec-3 Dbr sleeper ran Washington-Memphis.
>> A 12 Sec-1DR ran Washington-Nashville. It was set out at Chattanooga (to Nashville via NC&StL)
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>> --Rick Morrison
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>> Based on my first sightings of the Tennessean in the late 1940's, I would guess that it ran more or less with its "as built" consist in the 1940's. The first change was two streamlined Pullmans replacing heavyweight cars in 1948 or 1949. That was the Tennessean the first time I saw it in Roanoke, and my memory is that all cars on the train were streamlined. I could be missing something, but that is how I have always remembered it. Changes in consist came later.
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>> Jim Nichols
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