N&W Pj coach

[NW Modeling List]

That is an absolute gorgeous model! Thank you for posting
Sent from my smart phone cuzz I’m just high tech like that, know what I mean?
WALLY 

> On Aug 25, 2024, at 12:25, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
>  From the nw-mailing-list. . .
> 
> Hello Jim,
> 
> Thank you! Images of your model #1702 are attached, I'll post to the modeling list and please chime in with particulars.
> 
> Grant Carpenter
> 
>> On 8/5/2024 9:48 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>> So far as I know, no HO models of the PJ have ever been produced. I kitbashed one for Grant Carpenter a few years ago, as they ran on 23 and 24.
>> 
>> Jim Nichols
> On 8/5/2024 2:46 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>> Have any HO scale models of the N&W PJ coach been produced? The Virginian Railway leased # 1702  & 1703 for a short time after the Virginian State Corporation rule that the VGN must make a sincere effort to increase ridership by offering improved equipment (from Aubrey Wiley's Virginian Railway Memories).  Thanks, Bob Cook Chesapeake, VA
>> 
>> On 8/5/2024 3:16 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>>> Two photos of N&W Pj coaches built circa 1935 by Bethlehem Steel.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> The broadside is of 1709 is in Hagerstown on train 13, late 1940’s. Phil Soring Collection.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> The second photo is early 1950’s of train 4, The Pocahontas, in Petersburg, VA.
>>> 
>>> The Pj coach ran through Washington-Norfolk: RF&P 375 to Richmond, ACL 27 to Petersburg,
>>> 
>>> and N&W 4 to Norfolk. Ahead of the Pj is S1 10-6 sleeper, Pullman 10-section lounge car,
>>> 
>>> and D1 diner. At the time of the photo, the two Pullmans ran Chicago-Norfolk.
>>> 
>>> This photo is an eBay find.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> --Rick Morrison
>>> 
> <NW Pj coach Petersburg051.jpg>
> <NW coach 1709 Hag 1935027.jpg>
> <Pj1702B.png>
> <Pj1702A.png>
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