N&W business car #1

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On page 97 of Morning Sun's "Trackside Around Eastern Ohio With Dave McKay", there is a picture of an N&W heavyweight observation car, likely a business car, numbered 1.  All N&W business cars I am familiar with carried a 3 digit number.  A quick online search turned up only one photograph:  http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4521131

This is of the opposite side of the car as the picture in the book, and the only major difference is the car in the book does not have the modernized roof.  It is painted tuscan red with "NORFOLK AND WESTERN", but no striping, matching the steam era/pre-merger scheme.  The car has a heavyweight look with rivets.  There appears to be a vestibule at the front of the car.  The photograph is dated August 21, 1965, at Conneaut, OH.  It is on the rear of a short passenger train, with two streamlined cars (likely coaches or sleepers) and a heavyweight baggage ahead of it.  The picture is at a sharp angle, so it could be an optical illusion, but the other cars do not appear to be tuscan.

Does anyone know what this car is?  The business car roster in Vol 5 #1 of the Arrow does not list it, nor can I find it in the Morning Sun N&W Equipment Guide.

Marty Flick