The Norfolk & Western Business Car 300 Preservation Society announced in September that it had raised the $35,000 needed to acquire the last surviving N&W American Car & Foundry 12-4 sleeping car. The non-profit, which owns and operates a former N&W office car, plans to restore the car on the Hoosier Valley Railroad in Indiana. 

The car was built in January 1950 for the Wabash Railroad. It joined the N&W fleet in 1964 and was later assigned to the railroad’s business train in 1972. There, it received the name Hollins College. 

The non-profit is expected to take ownership of the car in January, when it will be moved west from its current home on the Morristown & Erie. The organization is presently raising money for that move.  For more information and to learn how to help, visit nw300.org.  

—Railfan & Railroad Staff