EXTERNAL: The Cavalier Drumhead (Rear Tail Sign)

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Eric

The Cavalier artwork was used in ads and timetables in the 1920-1940 era, it changed slightly for timetables in the late 1940s, I believe.

Since Wikipedia is edited by registered users, there is always a questionable area in whatever you read on there. Sure most folks try to get stuff right, but on many subjects there is limited knowledge available. Whoever put that up picked up the Tomar artwork (where it came from is unnkown) and used it. The art on the sign on the rebel rails site is a combination of several era things into a tin sign to sell, not based on reality.

Ken Miller

> On Oct 23, 2019, at 2:12 PM, NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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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 <https://www.rebelrails.com/store/images/products/thumb_3072_NWcavalier6x6S.jpg>)
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> 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 <https://www.classicstreamliners.com/npt-cavalier.html> shows exactly same artwork-- very suspicious.
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> -Eric Bott
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> Subject: EXTERNAL: The Cavalier Drumhead (Rear Tail Sign)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Bill King
> Arlington, Virginia
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