Nostalgia & History > 6 of N&W's Pocahontas -- 1960s -- Rick Burn

1. N&W GP9 505 with Train 3, the Pocahontas, Norfolk, VA in August 1965.  Note 505 is maroon.

2 and 3. Coming and going. N&W GP9s 505 with Train 3, the Pocahontas, at US 17 Crossing, Chesapeake, VA in June1969.  Note 505 is now blue.


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4 and 5. Coming and going. N&W GP9 515 with Train 3, the Pocahontas, in Chesapeake, VA in August 1968.

6. N&W GP9s 518, 500, and 504 with Train 3, the Pocahontas, at New Military Hwy, Chesapeake, VA September 1969.


Enjoy Rick's Pocahontas photos,
Marty Bernard
 



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3 GP9's on a passenger train at speed, awesome!
JB

Do I spy at least one Wabash dome car in photo two? I know they were run in this train.

Victor A. Baird
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Victor, look at Photo 3 showing the rear of the same train.   Marty

Didn't the ICC allow the NW to drop the Pocahontas in the late 60's/early 70's with the condition that they kept running the Powhatton Arrow with sleepers/diners, etc?  Was the Pocahontas the day train on the Norfolk-Cinc route with the Powhatton Arrow being the overnight train?  In one of the Classic Trains issues, there is an article regarding a trip taken on the Powhatten Arrow in the months leading up to Amtrak.  It was part of a circle trip from Chicago to the East Coast and back.  Author I think was Kevin Keefe or J. David Ingles.  He said he left Cinc in the evening (after riding a day PC train to Cinc from Chicago) on the Powhatton Arrow in a sleeper and rode to Roanoke where he switched to the remnant of the old  SOU Birmingham Special to DC.  The Powhatton Arrow had a diner and a dome.  Sleeper passengers had comp meals in the diner.  He then rode a Metroliner to NYP and then the Montreal Limited to Rouses Point, NY where he got on the SB Laurentian.  Very good article.

look at the funky train order signal in 1

Nice shots!  Old N&W Railway passenger conductors and brakemen, based in Roanoke, VA worked to and from Norfolk, VA. Crewe, VA engine crews worked to and from Norfolk.

fulham Wrote:
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> Didn't the ICC allow the NW to drop the Pocahontas
> in the late 60's/early 70's with the condition
> that they kept running the Powhatton Arrow with
> sleepers/diners, etc?  Was the Pocahontas the day
> train on the Norfolk-Cinc route with the Powhatton
> Arrow being the overnight train?  

Just the opposite.  The ICC allowed the N&W to drop the Arrow for an upgrade of the Pokey.  The Pocahontas lasted until Amtrak, and was the overnight train to Cincinnati.  In its later years, it carried a sleeper only between Roanoke and Cincinnati.

Art House



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Thanks for the info.

Yeah, I was too mesmerized with the heavywight observation! <G>

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com

MartyBernard Wrote:
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> Victor, look at Photo 3 showing the rear of the
> same train.   Marty