sleeper in local passenger service?!

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I have seen many videos of this local train. I think most have also shown the train boards at the local stations with this train shown. It was a single train in each direction on the branch. Like Jim Nichols said it was pulled by a streamlined K-2/K-2a. I don't recall the train numbers. N&W Timetables show this train and information.
Roger Huber
Deer Creek Locomotive Works 

    On Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 12:19:19 PM CDT, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
  That's the Roanoke to Winston Salem train. You could call it "local" service, as it was the only service on this branch. What is unusual is seeing it pulled by a Geep. Previously it would have been a K2.
Jim Nichols
    On Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 05:35:38 AM CDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
 Just watched 1957 video from the Price, NC area showing a GP9, baggage/express, coach and a SLEEPER!  Narration described this train as being in local passenger service?!  Can anyone speak to why a sleeping car would be used in this way?Thanks,Jim Cochran  ________________________________________
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