Power Car 409

The oldest passenger car in our collection was built in 1930 by Pullman-Standard as a Railway Post Office (RPO) Car. As a rolling sorting office, this car carried mail across the Midwest as Wabash Railroad 454, and later as Norfolk and Western 160. When mail stopped going by rail in the mid 60s, 160 had its mail sorting equipment gutted and was converted into a power car. The renumbered 409 served dutifully until being retired in 1987, and sold off to the Hohorst Railway Group; the original operators of the Nashville and Eastern Railway.