Looking for Powhatan Arrow Info

[Dave Hughes]

Hi all. I have done all kind of searches online for te Powhatan arrow. The only thing that come up (besides a small Wikipidia description) is sites about the actual indian or other indians and tribes.

What Im looking for is a timetable or something else that will list the station stops for the train.

Also, Im looking for the same info for the Pocahantas and the Cavaliere.

Thanks All

[Esky]

Dave,

Have you tried the N&W Historical Society (www.nwhs.org)?

Stephen

[Esky]

(oops, didn't mean to double post)

[N&W]

I own several timetables from several different years, and the schedules changed over time ...

I recommend you get this:

Amazon.com: Norfolk and Western Passenger Service, 1946-1971: Books: William Warden,Kenneth L. Miller

[Robbman]

What year do you want the schedules for?

[Dave Hughes]

Hi all

Thanks for your input.

N&W, thanks for the link to the book, however, the only information I need is a list of the station stops. I cant justify spending $$ on a book that I'm not going to read except to copy a list of cities. But thanks anyway!:thumbs_up:

What year do you want the schedules for?

Any year in the 40's to 50's

[Robbman]

Earliest I have is 1965... station stops didn't change much though.

East to west:

Portsmouth (Bus service to-from Norfolk)
NORFOLK, VA
Suffolk
Windsor
Wakefield
Waverky
PETERSBURG (Fort Lee, VA) (Bus service or ACL conn. to Ricmond)
Blackstone (Camp Pickett, VA) (Stop to discharge or receive)
Crewe
Burkeville (No checked baggage)
Farmville
Pamplin (No checked baggage)
Appomattox (Stop to discharge or receive)
LYNCHBURG
Bedford (Flag stop)
ROANOKE
Christiansburg
Belspring (No checked baggage)
Eggleston (No checked baggage)
Pembroke (Mountian Lake) (No checked baggage)
Ripplemead
Pearisburg (Conditional stop*)
Narrows
Glen Lyn, Va (No checked baggage)
Oakvale, W. Va (No checked baggage)
Ingleside (No checked baggage)
BLUEFIELD W. VA
North Fork W. Va (Flag stop)
WELCH
Iaeger
Panther (Flag stop) (No checked baggage)
Wharncliffe (Flag stop) (No checked baggage)
Devon (Flag stop) (No checked baggage)
Delorme (Flag stop) (No checked baggage)
Thacker (No checked baggage) (Flag stop eastbound)
Matewan (Flag stop)
WILLIAMSON
Kermit (Flag stop)
Webb (Flag stop) (No checked baggage)
Glenhayes (Flag stop) (No checked baggage)
Fort Gay (Louisa, Ky) (Flag stop) (No checked baggage)
Hewlett (Flag stop) (No checked baggage)
Prichard (Flag stop) (No checked baggage)
KENOVA W. VA
IRONTON, OHIO
PORTSMOUTH
Rarden (Stop only to discharge) (No checked baggage)
Peebles (Flag stop)
Winchester (Flag stop)
Sardinia (Flag stop)
Mount Oreb (Stop only to discharge)
Williamsburg (Stop only to discharge east) (Flag stop west)
Batavia (Stop only to discharge eastbound) (Flag stop westbound)
Norwood (Stop only to discharge eastbound)
Winton Place (Stop only to discharge eastbound)
CINCINNATI, O.


*Stop only to discharge or receive from or to Roanoke and beyond or to receive or discharge for or from Williamson and beyond.

[Allen]

Mainline Modeler had a series of articles covering all of the cars of the 1949 re-equipping of the Arrow in the early 1990's, you may still be able to find the issues at swap meets, etc.

I first rode the nos. 25-26 in 1960 with my granddad, who had recently retired as a conductor on the N&W, on a trip from Bluefield,WV to Cincinnati, OH. This was right after the N&W allowed pass riders on the train. My last trip was in January 1969 when the train had the ex-Wabash domes but had been downgraded into a local mail train and usually ran with a long string of 89' auto parts boxcars on the rear.

Al Evans
Federal Way, WA