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Just checked Wikipedia, and the NPN section of the James Whitcomb Riley was discontinued in summer 1976. Makes sense -- my period of riding those trains (Broadway, Cardinal, Lake Shore, Shenandoah) was when I was in college/grad school in Chicago and my parents were living in Washington (1971 -- 76).
By the way, Seaboard Coast Line and predecessors never ran slumbercoaches. They leased B&O 16-4 duplex roomette cars in the late 1960s and sold the space as "budget room coaches". Passengers in these cars ate in the coach diner and did not have access to the Pullman lounge.
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