Powhatan Arrow

Tue Jun 6 11:49:14 EDT 2023

Mike

Those are Gordon Hamilton slides.

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=88209

and

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=88210

Those were both made in April 1968.

They are from the dome car showing the Budd corrugated roofs of the dome cars. Ex Wabash cars.

None of the original N&W cars (pre-merger) had those roofs, other than the Budd-built sleepers.

Best
Ken Miller

> On Jun 6, 2023, at 10:44 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> So, I happened upon two images of the Powhatan Arrow car roofs.  DS00006 and DS00007.  They show corrugated roofs.  It is hard to tell if they are streamlined coaches but the consist does contain streamlined cars.  Did any of our coaches have corrugated roofs other than streamlined coaches.
> (The images are labeled DC00006 and DC00007.  I didn't know if the record locator should match these numbers.)
> Thank you,
> Mike Shockley
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