Domed Cars

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Any Pictures?...Ken Tanner

----- Original Message -----
From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:40 am
Subject: Domed Cars
To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org


> Yes they ran a domed car on the Powhatan Arrow and later on the 

> Pocahontas.  The public timetables for April 1967, October 1967 

> and April 1968 shows a Dome Chair Car, Coaches and a Dining Lounge 

> Car for the Powhatan Arrow.  The June 1969, December 1969 and 

> August 1970 public timetables show a dome car on the Pocahontas 

> (the Powhatan Arrow being discontinued at that point) which was 

> operated until the arrival of Amtrak in 1971.  

> 

> Rodney 

> 

> 

> 

> >   ----- Original Message -----

> >   From: NW Mailing List

> >   To: mailing-list at nwhs.org

> >   Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:16 AM

> >   Subject: Domed Passenger Cars

> >

> >

> >   Question -

> >

> >   Did the Norfolk & Western every use any of the Domed Passenger 

> cars on 

> >any of their regular passenger trains? I realize that they 

> "inherited" some 

> >from the Wabash after their merger, but I am asking specifically 

> about 

> >either the Powhatan rrow, or the Pocahontas.

> >

> >   Thanks

> >

> >   Frank Jefferson

> >