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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bill haithcoat: [QB] I, too, 20th Century, have read that Budd did not like for its stainless steel trains to be painted. Of the big three streamliners, only the Dixie Flagler remained in its unpainted silver stage. Aside from some heavyweight sleepers for a few years as I noted in an above post. Kind of strange, then, that the unpainted silvertrain was the first to go!! As to names, people have probably forgotten who Mr. Flagler was, and the words "Dixie" and "South" might not work very well today. Thus, City of Miami would be a great name. We would not want to revive the Floridian name, the Amtrak train, since it became such a pitifuly poor operation. But I would kind of like the name "Royal Palm" to be brought back, I like the sound of it. This, even though in large measure it would be untrue to its original route, having only Chattanooga and Atlanta in common with the Dixie Flagler, and not the same trackage between them. Furthur it came more out of Detroit, Cleveland,Cincinnati, etc rather than Chicago. Of course it is all moot since few people living today, including a lot of younger railfans, have heard of any of them. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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