N&W heavyweight sleeping cars

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Thanks, Jim.  I'm sure I saw the article but probably forgot about it.

Sam
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> Oh, we have seen several pictures of the heavyweights in N&W livery. Check 

> the article Jim Brewer and I did in the Arrow a few years ago. In fact, we 

> have definitive evidence that Chilhowie was never repainted in N&W livery, 

> and that may make it the only one that wasn't. Also, I saw one of the 

> repaints in N&W livery (don't remember which one) in service at Petersburg 

> in 1955.   Jim Nichols

>

>

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>> Subject: Re: N&W heavyweight sleeping cars

>>

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>>> Would this be the first definitive evidence that Pullman cars that 

>>> reverted to N&W in the late '40's were painted in N&W scheme?  Or at 

>>> least one of them.  I have only ever heard speculation about this, but 

>>> no actual proof.

>>>

>>> Sam Putney

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>>>> --- On Wed, 5/14/08, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

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>>>>> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>>> Subject: N&W heavyweight sleeping cars

>>>>> To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>>> Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 8:03 AM

>>>>> The Summer '08 issue of Classic Trains magazine features

>>>>> articles on Pullman operations.  On page 56 there is a color

>>>>> picture of N&W Cuttyhunk taken in Orlando, Florida in

>>>>> 1955.  The car looks great in N&W tuscan with brown

>>>>> roof.

>>>>>

>>>>> --Rick Morrison

>>>>

>>>> =====================================

>>>> Rick,

>>>>

>>>> Thanks for the heads up! I just got a new airbrush, so this will be a 

>>>> great reference photo for when I paint up my pullman sleepers.

>>>>

>>>> Mark Peele

>>>> Catonsville, MD

>>>>

>>>> ================================

>>>> N&W in N scale

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

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