arrow and baggage cars

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Sat Jan 4 14:56:59 EST 2025


Thanks Ken, -----Walter Davis

On 1/4/2025 10:19 AM, NW Modeling List wrote:
> 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
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