passenger exchg: N&W-PRR

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Re: N&W 1 & 2

Apparently it was not unusual for the diner to be a PRR diner (in 
which case he'd eat at the station in Roanoke!), so it's entirely 
possible that the diner just shut down after Shenandoah but stayed in 
the train.

This is news to me!!!  I never heard or saw of this.  Can anyone else 
verify?  Not unheard of for another road to lease diners on occasion, 
but the cars were staffed by the leasing road.

Jim Brewer is correct.  Trains 1 & 2 were essentially N&W equipped 
with an engine change to PRR at Hagerstown.  The only PRR car that 
ran on a regular basis was a B-60 baggage car that operated 
Harrisburg to Roanoke.  The N&W postal-baggage was set out at 
Hagerstown.  After about 1959-60 with express volume declining, the 
full baggage car was dropped, and the N&W car ran through to 
Harrisburg.  The postal crew worked only to Hagerstown and the mail 
portion of the car ran "closed pouch" to Harrisburg.

Rick Morrison
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