N&W 50ft PS-1 Boxcar

[harryadkins]

This model is a Norfolk and Western Railway reskin of Michael Stephan’s freeware 50ft PS1 Boxcar. The 50ft-PS1 base model can be downloaded at http://www.stephan-michael.de/railsim/p ... ps150.html.

The Norfolk and Western Railway, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. It was headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, for most of its 150-year existence. Its motto was "Precision Transportation."

In December 1959, NW merged with the Virginian Railway (reporting mark VGN), a longtime rival in the Pocahontas coal region. By 1970, other mergers with the Nickel Plate Road and Wabash formed a system that operated 7,595 miles of road on 14,881 miles of track from North Carolina to New York and from Virginia to Illinois.

In 1982, NW merged with the Southern Railway, another profitable carrier, to form the Norfolk Southern Corporation, but it continued paper operations until it was merged into the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1997.

Special thanks goes to Michael Stephan for his excellent model and repainter’s package. If you have problems, post a message in the support forum at Railworks America. This package is released as freeware. You can do whatever you wish with it EXCEPT make money with its use.

Harry R. Adkins
January 2016

[BoostedFridge]

Thank you for the great repaint! I especially like this one.

[Coaltrain1]

Very Nice, Love the History of the cars.