Nostalgia & History > N&W No. 4 with ACL E's & SLSF sleeper

Here are a couple more frames, this time from 16mm film dated Aug. 2, 1958. These leased E's had started running just a couple of weeks earlier. The question here is, why the SLSF sleeper? Could it have been a military personnel move to Petersburg or Norfolk? The train is No. 4, the eastbound Pocahontas passing a struggling coal train on Blue Ridge.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/23/09 22:37 by Panamerican99.

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coulda been a PRR car painted in SLSF colors......

Panamerican99 Wrote:
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> The question here is, why the SLSF sleeper? Could
> it have been a military personnel move to
> Petersburg or Norfolk?

The most likely answer is that it's a regular Pullman 'Line', e.g. Kansas City - Cincinnati - New York. The N&W public timetable should list the specific lines carried on no. 4.

It may also be a reroute or a car substitution (maybe the regular stock for this line was unavailable and Pullman substituted SLSF-painted stock.

JAC

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Sweet shots! Looks like the Y6 is doing all the work on that coal drag.

Phil

The photo is grainy-the sleeper could be Lackawanna.

Bob