Mail Train Operation Was... Re: Anyone know what train this is?

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Thanks, Dave, for your work keying all that!   I will have to pick up 
that doc from the Commissary.

Take care
Bill



On 1/13/2017 3:35 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> The "_NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY TRANSPORTATION 
> DEPARTMENT_ CONSIST OF ALL MAIN LINE PASSENGER TRAINS Revised and 
> Reissued, March 15, 1954" that's available from the NWHS Commissary 
> shows the following for Train No. 23, Roanoke to Portsmouth (not all 
> cars run every day, and I'm not going to transcribe all the footnotes)
>
> 1 Storage Mail Car                Bluefield to Columbus
> 1 Storage Mail Car                Bluefield to Cincinnati
> 1 Storage Mail Car                Greensboro to Cincinnati
> 1 Express Car                      Roanoke to Cincinnati
> 1 Storage Mail Car                Washington or Roanoke to Cincinnati
> 1 Mail & Baggage Car           Roanoke to Williamson
> 1 Express Car                      Greensboro to Cincinnati
> 1 Passenger & Baggage Car  Roanoke to Columbus
> 1 Coach                               Roanoke to Portsmouth
>
> The document summarizes train length by segment, Roanoke-Bluefield, 
> Bluefield-Williamson,  Williamson-Portsmouth.  Since this photo is 
> within Roanoke-Bluefield, and has seven cars, it should have been 
> taken on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.  The maximum possible 
> train length of nine cars would occur Bluefield-Williamson on Wed. and 
> Thur.  The slide was supposedly taken about a year later than this 
> consist document is dated, and it appears that the "Passenger & 
> Baggage Car" has been replaced by an Express Car or possibly Baggage 
> and Express (the footnote for this car in the Consist document says, 
> "Baggage and to be used for baggage and express".)
>
> Dave Phelps
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:42 AM, NW Mailing List 
> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 1/12/2017 11:37 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>>     I agree with the description in the ebay listing. It is train 23,
>>     the all stops mainline local,
>     (snip)
>
>     This probably falls into the silly question area, but....
>
>     Most of the photos I have seen show these trains in the
>     mountains.   So did they start from the East with a smaller number
>     of headend cars and pick up & drop off others on the way, or were
>     cars loaded & unloaded as needed at various stops?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Bill
>

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