Combine #1506

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N & W 1506 was purchased from someone around Conway,S.C. I believe it was
the Waccamaw Coast Line a tourist line that never really got on it's feet.

 

The group in South Carolina purchased the car from the Old Dominion Chapter
NRHS in the late 1980s after NS started the requirement for cars used on the
steam excursion trains to be equipped with

Tightlock type couplers.

 

The car was in terrible shape when it arrived at Spencer and turned out to
be a restoration project that lasted about 4 years.Needless to say we are
very proud of the car.

 

 

John Barnett

Raleigh,N.C

 

Also volunteer at Spencer

 

 

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I rode on the 1506 last Saturday, (7/15/06) as it was pulled from one end of
Spencer to the other.  It looks good. Obviously someone has spent a lot of
time on it.  An automated wheel chair lift has been installed at the baggage
door.  Inside the coach compartment, most of the seats on one side have been
removed and "tie-downs" downs for wheel chairs have been installed.  The
other side of the compartment still has coach seats.  The automated chair
lift is an improvement over the hand cranked lift that had been used.  As
one of the crew pointed out to me as we waited to start our little ride,
they get a lot of grandparents there.

 

Chuck Stewart

Bahama.

 

In a message dated 7/23/2006 4:56:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

How did the 1506 come to belong the NC Transportation Museum?  It used to
belong to the Old Dominion Chapter of the NRHS.

 

At this time the entire set of passenger cars owned by the Roanoke chapter
of the NRHS resides at Spencer.  Apparently the Museum 

Has worked out an agreement to store the set for the chapter, I had heard
that the chapter lost the track space they were using to store the set.

 

James Wall

 

 

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