arrow and baggage cars

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Sat Jan 4 14:56:20 EST 2025


Thanks Ray

On 1/4/2025 10:37 AM, NW Modeling List wrote:
> Walter,
>
> The combines I saw all had  a rounded roof but were not “streamlined” 
> like the other cars in the Arrow.
>
>     Ray
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jan 4, 2025, at 10:12 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
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