N&W On-Track Motorized Vehiche No. X-100

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Former NKP equipment

https://archive.nkphts.org/index.php/object/sc0020597-mow-railbus-x-100-august-1961

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Ken Miller

> On Oct 2, 2025, at 3:28 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> A fine Pennsylvania Dutchman over Allentown-way sent this today.
> 
> Someone probably knows what this ugly mystery craft is, and by what mechanism it rode on the rails.  It is not set up right to be a hump jitney, so my guess is it served as an on-track inspection vehicle of some sort.
> 
> It appears to be equipped with flag holders on the pilot and marker brackets up near the roof line.  So it must have been used in territory where on-track vehicles ran with Train Orders and displaying signals and markers.
> 
> This ugly thing would look delightful wrapped around the front drawhead of a Y6, in one of Mr. Matt Goodman's masterful dioramas !
> 
> -- abram burnett
> Wolf-Tone Turnips
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