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Those are fantastic pix, Rick!  Thanks for posting with the description.
I've saved all 3 plus your description with my Abingdon Branch stuff.

 

Jim King

http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/

 

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Subject: more on Abingdon Branch pax cars

 

Here are photos from 1957 of the Abingdon branch mixed at Green Cove.  M 396
was the subject of the photographer, but I was able to determine that the
postal-baggage is BMg 10 and the coach is Pg 1600. 1600 and 1601 were the
only Pg coaches in 1957 which had coal stoves for branch line service.
Number 10 was the last BMg set up for US Mail service (1961-62 drawing).
There are photos in books of a Ph coach on 201-202, evidently as a
substitute car.  I could only find that of the Ph class, only 703 and 704
listed as "not air conditioned" on a 1952 drawing.  As for when two cars
were replaced by a combine, I would date that from when the US Mail contract
ended.  Can anyone fill in that date?  There is a photo in Ferrell's book,
page 173 of  the train with a combine which looks to be a BPe.  Somethng
else is curious in the photos.  Does it look like there is enough space
between the head end car and the coach for another car? If you have Link's
"Last Steam Railroad in America" on page 78 there are three passenger cars
in the consist.

 

When I acquired these negatives 30 years or more ago, I had only printed
one.  I was always curious what the cans or barrels on 396's pilot deck
were.  Look at the other two  photos and figure out what that was all about.
The photographer was W. Raymond Hicks.  I bought all 20 or so of his N&W
negs.  He was from Maryland and his B&O and WM negatives numbered in the
hundreds.

 

--Rick Morrison

 

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