arrow and baggage cars

[NW Modeling List]

Walter

The N&W never had any lightweight combines. It was a modernized heavyweight car with a round roof, usually a Bpd, I believe.

Best
Ken

> On Jan 4, 2025, at 10:04 AM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you, I appreciate your response.  Was the combine a smooth side or a heavyweight?  Walter Davis
> On 1/4/2025 8:25 AM, NW Modeling List wrote:
>> Walter, 
>> The time this occurred may have varied depending upon where on the route of the Arrow one observed the train.
>> 
>> I know that in Lynchburg a combine car began to regularly appear as the first car in the consist in the late 1950s. I don’t recall a full baggage/mail/express car in the consist there  until the mid 1960s. 
>> 
>>    Ray Smoot
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On Jan 4, 2025, at 8:11 AM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>  Does anyone know when the Arrow started adding baggage and/or post office cars to the consists of the original 5 car trains?  Walter Davis in Youngsville, NC
>>> -- 
>>> Walter Davis
>>> <walterdavis.vcf>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> NW-Modeling-List at nwhs.org
>>> To change your subscription go to
>>> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-modeling-list
>>> Browse the NW-Modeling-List archives at
>>> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-modeling-list/
>> 
>> ________________________________________
>> NW-Modeling-List at nwhs.org
>> To change your subscription go to
>> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-modeling-list
>> Browse the NW-Modeling-List archives at
>> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-modeling-list/
>> 
> -- 
> Walter Davis
> <walterdavis.vcf>________________________________________
> NW-Modeling-List at nwhs.org
> To change your subscription go to
> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-modeling-list
> Browse the NW-Modeling-List archives at
> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-modeling-list/