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Around the early 1950s the lettering/striping was changed to imitation gold. The roofs, when repainted in the '50s, changed to black, as were the trucks. The heavyweights were painted the same but did not carry train-name logos or striping. N&W adopted blue at the end of 1965, but the repaints
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The cars were delivered in 1949. They were smooth-sided and were delivered in Tuscan Red and Black; even the stainless-steel Budd cars were painted, and they lacked the usual fluted sides. Of the ten P3 cars, eight may still be in operation. Several of those cars were used in the
Norfolk Southern
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Columbus 10-6 sleeping car that was carried in train 12 from Winston-Salem to Roanoke, train 3 from Roanoke to Portsmouth, and train 33 from Portsmouth to Columbus. All those trains had counterparts operating in the opposite directions.
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Steam
Program. The N&W streamlined/lightweight trains were originally painted as follows: sides, ends, and skirts ("Tuscan Red"), roofs ("Dark Brown"), with Trucks ("Pullman Green") and lettering/striping ("Gold Leaf").
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train service, which ran on N&W's 676 miles (1,088 km) mainline daily at night between
Norfolk, Virginia, and Cincinnati, Ohio. The train was named after the
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The train carried two 10-roomette-6-double-bedroom sleeping cars from
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caused it to flip on its side. No. 611 was repaired and continued revenue passenger service. It was retired in 1959 and purchased by the
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1187:(S1 class). Some of the P3 and two more D1 cars (#491–492) were for the
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Western Railway, October 27, 1957 timetable, p. 14–15
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1342:"N&W's "Pocahontas" (Train): Schedule, Consist, Timetable"
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Norfolk and Western Railway, October 27, 1957 timetable, p. 5
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1406:This Month in History; May(NRHS Rivanna Chapter)
1179:), three 10-roomette-6-double bedroom cars from
1456:Warden, William E.; Miller, Kenneth L. (2000).
1044:replaced an earlier passenger train called the
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1665:Railway services discontinued in 1971
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1183:(S2 class), and 20 similar cars from
1107:The most famous engines to power the
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1630:Railway services introduced in 1941
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41:A postcard photo of the Pocahontas
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1395:www.bachmanntrains.com
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1170:General William Mahone
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1433:on October 3, 2017
1373:www.craterroad.com
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