N&W Passenger train consists

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Handed off to either ACL or SAL (I can’t keep straight which was which there) at Petersburg, then RF&P.

One interesting tidbit is there was a period when the Pocohontas diner EB came off in Petersburg. It then sat there overnight and was added to the NY-Norfolk train to provide breakfast service. At Norfolk, it went back in to the Pocohontas consist for the WB trip.

-- Larry Stone
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> On Jun 2, 2020, at 18:58, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> So many wonderful and informative replies!  Thank you one and all!  Now I understand how an NYC sleeper ended up in a consist on the video I have.  With regard to the Norfolk-New York run, what was the routing from Norfolk to Washington, D.C.?
> --- Vic Chudoba
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> Even before 1966, the through Pocahontas sleeper and coach to Chicago were gone. When extra sleeping cars were needed on any route, Pullman would supply what was available and not necessarily one from the home road. The last N&W sleeping car inter-line route was Norfolk-New York, and I think that ended about 1964.  This doesn't include the Southern run throughs between Lynchburg and Bristol.
> --Rick Morrison 
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> Looking through N&W time tables from 1966, I am trying to understand more clearly the consists of the “The Powhatan Arrow” and “The Pocahontas”, and especially the sleeping cars that might be included.  A video which I have seen, shows some PRR and NYC sleepers in N&W trains.  #25 had a connection in Cincinnati that went on to Chicago, perhaps with a PRR sleeper?  Assistance would be appreciated!
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> Vic Chudoba
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