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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> James Nichols
[mailto:jamesanichols@bellsouth.net] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 25, 2009 3:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'James Nichols'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: N&W in 1910--Dining cars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Supplemental information: Dad’s records show them as 1000 and
1001, class RC, and 1002-1005 as class RD, built Pullman 1910 and purchased
from the Pennsylvania. The mystery is: how long did PRR own them, since N&W
bought them the same year they were built? Or maybe Dad was mistaken about the
built date. There is a picture of one of the PRR cars in Dubin’s <i>Some
Classic Trains</i>. In any event, PRR was buying steel cars because of the new
Penn Station in New York, so were happy to unload these almost new wood
cars. Jim Nichols<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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nw-mailing-list-bounces@nwhs.org [mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces@nwhs.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>NW Mailing List<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 25, 2009 10:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 3N&W Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> N&W in 1910--Dining cars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tunga'>Bluefield
Daily Telegraph<br>
March 1, 1910</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>IN CITY AND COALFIELD</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong>New Dining
Cars</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> The Norfolk and Western expects to
receive in a short time seven new dining cars of the latest improved heavy type
which will be put in service. All but two of the present cars will be
converted to other uses while the two cars to be retained will be used for
extra work in case one of the new cars is put in for repairs. The cars
will be used on the regular trains which now have a dining car service.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>[<em>The pride in the "heavy type" is in contrast
to the pride in lightweight passenger cars several decades later. These
seven 1910 diners may have been wooden cars because they did not survive (like
some 1914 diners) to be listed in a 1950's MP Data Book, which listed these
dining cars: 3 De, 1012--1014 inc., ACF, 1914--1915; 7 De,
1015--1021, Pullman 1923; 3 De 1022--1024, Pullman 1927; and 4 D1,
491--494, Pullman 1949.</em>]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Gordon
Hamilton</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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