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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] Initially all three of these trains were all-coach. Since they left from different Chicago stations the first common station for all three was Jacksonville, Florida. Both the South Wind and the Dixie Flagler stopped at Nashville Union Station. The Dixie Flagler and City of Miami both stopped at Plant Avenue station in Waycross GA, but the South Wind stopped at Oklahoma Avenue to avoid the need for a back up move. The City of Miami and South Wind both served Birmingham, but the City of Miami stopped at Southern's Terminal Staion and the South Wind at the L&N Station. 20th Century, some of your intermediate points are not quite right. Dixie Flagler: C&EI - Chicago-Evansville L&N - Evansville-Nashville NC&StL - Nashville-Atlanta AB&C - Atlanta-Waycross ACL - Waycross-Jacksonville FEC - Jacksonville-Miami South Wind: Pennsy - Chicago-Louisville L&N - Louisville-Montgomery ACL - Mongtomery-Jacksonville FEC - Jacksonville-Miami City of Miami: ICRR - Chicago-Birmingham CofG - Birmingham-Albany GA ACL - Albany-Jacksonville FEC - Jacksonville-Miami For the City of Miami, there was also the very interesting stitching together of trackage rights by the ICRR in 1908 between Jackson, Tennessee and Birmingham, which went: ICRR - Jackson TN to Perry Switch TN (about 3 miles) rights on GM&O - Perry Switch TN to Ruslor Jct. MS (near Corinth MS) ICRR owned - Ruslor Jct. to Haleyville, Alabama rights on Southern - Haleyville AL to Jasper AL rights on SLSF (Frisco) - Jasper to Birmingham. As a college studen at UT-Martin Branch in Martin TN in 1962-1964, I frequently saw the City of Miami come through with 4 E-units and 20 cars or more in the winter. Apparently the City of Miami had the easiest to make schedule, evidenced in part by more stops along the way and a scheduled 30 minute pause in Birmingham. So far as I know, neither of the other trains had a scheduled pause of over 10 minutes at any intermediate point. The only route that is still intact end to end is that of the Dixie Flagler. For the South Wind, all south of Indianapolis is still there, with Indy to Louisville needing major work. For the City of Miami, which always carried the biggest load, part of the Corinth MS to Haleyville Al section has been abandoned, and I think also part of Albany Ga ot Waycross is no more. Fulton KY to Corinth MS is now a secondary branch, probably unsignaled. Therefore, restoration of the City of Miami is no longer in the realm of the possible. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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