EXTERNAL: The Cavalier Drumhead (Rear Tail Sign)

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Didn’t N&W always brand The Cavalier with a stylized drawing of a Musketeer? (https://www.rebelrails.com/store/images/products/thumb_3072_NWcavalier6x6S.jpg)

Oddly enough, the Wikipedia article on The Cavalier presents what it purports to be a Cavalier drumhead exactly like Tomar’s, including the unappealingly flattened “C”.  https://www.classicstreamliners.com/npt-cavalier.html shows exactly same artwork-- very suspicious.

-Eric Bott
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Subject: EXTERNAL: The Cavalier Drumhead (Rear Tail Sign)

I'm trying to model N&W's passenger train, The Cavalier.  In real life, it always ran a poor third compared to The Powhatan Arrow and The Pocahontas.  I guess that's why it interests me so much.  But information about it is very hard to come by.

I've found a company (Tomar Industries) on-line that makes Drumheads (or rear passenger car tail logos) of passenger trains.  The rear tail sign for The Cavalier that they offer is so unbelievably crude and childish that I can't believe it was actually used on an N&W passenger train.  I've attached a copy of the logo that they offer for everyone to inspect.

I have two questions that I need answers to: Is the Cavalier drumhead offered by Tomar Industries the actual logo that N&W used?  And, if not, what did the real Cavalier drumhead look like?

Bill King
Arlington, Virginia
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