N&W and TAT in Columbus

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A porcelain enamel reproduction of the "by PLANE and TRAIN - TAT - Norfolk
and Western Railway" sign has been available in the recent past. I wondered
if the service was real or fiction. Now I know.

 

Don Trettel

 

 

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The recent Arcadia Publishing book, "Aviation In Columbus", has a picture of
an ad featuring N&W's participation in the Transcontinental Air Transport
system, an early multi-mode transportation system combining rail and air.
The caption says N&W joined the TAT on August 1, 1929, with service from
Norfolk and Roanoke to Columbus, with the Columbus stop at Broad St.  

 

Does anyone know anything else about N&W's involvement with this service?
How long did it last?  Was there a station or shelter at Broad St in
Columbus?

 

Marty Flick

 

Marty:

The Pennsylvania RR Technical and Historical Society had an article on TAT
four or five years ago.  Information

for N&W's participation was supplied by N&WHS from an article in the N&W
Magazine.  Just from memory, the

Broad Street stop was a train-to-bus transfer only.  The article identified
the first passenger to use the

service (from Suffolk as I remember).  Let me dig out my copy of the PRRT&HS
magazine and I'll see if there's

anything to add.                                                 Harry Bundy

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