N&W Class S-1 Sleepers;

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Thank you Jim and Rick.  Since I model August 1956 I will build my car(s)
without skirts.

Jim Brewer

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 1:27 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> I checked my copy of *N&W Diagrams of Passenger Equipment*, TLC
> Publishing reprint of the original. The S1 diagram has two revision dates:
> 6-6-53 and 10-26-53.  The drawing does not show the center skirts, only the
> skirts at the car ends. These drawings are short on details, so it's hard
> to know what the revision dates are all about. I think Jim's theory is
> correct. The skirts probably were removed when the side plates were
> replaced. I'm curious if the Cor-Ten steel was only below the belt
> rail. There is a color close-up of an S1 on page 82 of Jim Nichol's *Norfolk
> and Western in Color, Vol 1. *
> Budd prided itself on all stainless steel construction. I can't figure out
> why these cars were built with Cor-Ten side plates to begin with.
>
> --Rick Morrison
>
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> *Subject:* N&W Class S-1 Sleepers;
>
> I want to build a model of the N&W Class S-1 Sleepers, which were built by
> the Budd Company, circa 1950.
>
> These cars were all originally built with skirts; my research notes
> indicate these cars were originally built with Cor-Ten steel plates and
> there was a serious problem with corrosion; in 1954 authorization was given
> to replace those steel plates with stainless steel plates.
>
> I am trying to determine when the skirts were removed from these cars; it
> seems to me the skirts would have been removed at the same time the plates
> were replaced.  I have an undated photo of the *Scioto County* without
> skirts; my notes indicate its plates were replaced in June 1954.
>
> I have a photo of the *Hampden-Sydney College* in Petersburg on June 21,
> 1955 and it still has skirts; my notes indicate it received the corrosion
> repairs in July 1956.
>
> Does anyone have more definitive information or photos of these cars?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Jim Brewer
>
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