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[QUOTE]Originally posted by notelvis: [QB] Hi Bill, I had seen your post and it, in fact, is what reminded me of the every third day service pattern for the streamliners. George......very interesting the timetable mileage quirk you point out for the L&N south of Nashville. CSX has a similar quirk on their former Clinchfield route north of Erwin, TN and again around Johnson City also caused by 'modern-era' (say.....post 1950) track realignments. It was easier to note a couple or three miles fewer track than redo nearly 300 miles of mileposts. Let me note for those of you not familiar with my 'track record' that I am a relative youngster who took an interest in pre-Amtrak passenger railroading and studied backwards by reading books, looking at photos and route maps, and collecting 1950's and 60's timetables. I am a fan of the Southern Railway because their passenger trains in the 1970's gave me the opportunity to experience 'pre-Amtrak' passenger service after it was gone most everywhere else. My direct experiences with actual 'pre-Amtrak' passenger trains are these - 1) A sighting in Marshall, NC of what was left of the Carolina Special in Fall 1968 (I was 6 and with my mother on an errand to the County Seat). It was, by then, a single F unit, a baggage car, and a coach. 2) A sighting one year later of what was left of the Royal Palm arriving at the station in Georgetown, KY (my dad had returned to graduate school at the University of Kentucky). It was, by this time, a local running Cincinnati to Somerset, KY and return only. The consist was a dusty E unit, a baggage car, and two very attractive streamlined coaches. 3) An outing with a favorite aunt who wanted to show her nephew Louisville Union Station in the spring of 1970. By that time passenger service here was the daily Pan American (Cincinnati-New Orleans) and the alternate day South Wind (Chicago-Florida). The two trains ran as a combined train between Louisville and Montgomery. I got to see one of them arrive (I forget which and the other was already in the station) and then got to see the combined train depart. It seems like each train was a single E unit and four or five passenger cars. I recall seeing one sleeping car for certain but am unsure what the rest of the consists were......remember, sleepers and diners were still a foreign concept to me at this point. By the time I was out riding Amtrak trains and had a chance to board a train in Louisville, Amtrak's 'Floridian' was using the Auto-Train warehouse way south of town. It took until 2001 and the short-lived 'Kentucky Cardinal' before I actually got to board a passenger train from Louisville Union Station......something that was important to me. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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