Powhatan Arrow ca 1989

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Ken, don't apologize, thanks for your clarifications and the trip, and 
do it again. I confused two different excursions and I'd pull the slides 
if it were only that easy. The charter would have been lacking publicity 
and consist.

Grant Carpenter

On 5/4/2015 1:26 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Sorry Grant. The picture Mike had was actually my idea for a trip, it 
> was called by at least one person, Miller's Folly, as that person (now 
> deceased) thought it would never sell. Hah, sold out in less than 
> three weeks.
>
> It was a recreation, as close as could be reasonable done, of the 
> Arrow, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the arrival of the 
> new equipment in 1949. We used every available Arrow coach, no diner, 
> but or Tuscan red ex-GN No. 1148 stood in, and our round end 
> observation ex IC No. 3305 subbed for the overseas boat tail lounge 
> cars. I specifically ask for,  no tool car, no auxiliary tender.
>
> It was a Walton turn in the morning, and Lynchburg turn in the 
> afternoon. And, yes, the drumhead was replaced with a Powhatan Arrow 
> one I made for the trip, and I think I still have somewhere.
>
> It was September of 1989, I don't have the exact date at hand, it was 
> rainy that morning, but cleared the afternoon.
>
> I probably have the consist and transportation orders in my files 
> somewhere, but it was about 10 cars as I recall.
>
> There was, along about that time a charter for some group to Radford, 
> maybe some military or veterans group, I'd have to dig though my notes 
> to find it.
>
> Ken Miller
>
> On May 4, 2015, at 12:51 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
>> Actually, I seem to recall a charter (beverage distributors?) 
>> excursion to Walton. It was a rare (only?) excursion of the 611 with 
>> maybe five N&W coaches and the Mardi Gras. The first coach, maybe 
>> two, may have had the original sealed windows and were coupled 
>> directly behind the tender--no auxiliary tender, no tool car. An 
>> exceptionally photogenic train on a cloudy, light rain, saturated 
>> color kind of day, but with no publicity and no chase entourage. I 
>> seem to remember the usual Roanoke Chapter drumhead (?) was replaced 
>> with the Powhatan Arrow.
>>
>> Grant Carpenter

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