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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ehbowen: [QB] Speaking of the South Wind-- Last night I was working on publishing some of the Florida service timetables, including the South Wind from June 1941. You can see exactly what I'm talking about [URL=http://streamlinerschedules.com/concourse/track2/southwind194106.html]here[/URL]. Take a look at that timetable, and specifically at the connections in Jacksonville for Tampa and St. Petersburg. After a nearly twelve-hundred-mile overnight run, they expected that passengers would be able to make connections scheduled to depart fifteen minutes (to Tampa) and five minutes (to St. Petersburg) after the scheduled arrival of the train. A [i]very[/i] tightly scheduled arrival, at that--the South Wind [i]averaged[/i] over 52 miles an hour between Chicago and Jacksonville including all stops and steam engine changes. A five minute connection. After twelve hundred miles and twenty-three hours. That isn't even enough time to change engines! And this isn't just some coincidence between schedules; it appears in the South Wind's timetable as an official connection and apparently was booked and sold on a routine basis. And June 1941 is six months after the debut of the train and its siblings (City of Miami, Dixie Flagler); by then the various roads had enough actual operating experience to know basically what to expect in the way of on-time performance. And in order to keep offering it, they must have made this tight connection more often than not. Five minutes. To someone like me who has grown up with Amtrak, that boggles the mind. How in the world did we ever come so far--in the WRONG direction--so fast? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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