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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ehbowen: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by bill haithcoat: [qb] Should anyone be interested in any completely useless, outdated pre-Amtrak trivia, I have a suggestion. This would be the train known as the Dixiana.It was on the Dixie Flagler route. I know neither its schedule or it's day of operation. It would have been due to begin operation about Dec. 16, 1941. And it did make two or three round trips to Florida. Problem is, Pearl Harbor had been attacked just a few days before. The U.S. government quickly adoped a policy of dropping as many pullmans for civilian pleasure travel as possible so equipment could carry our military. The Dixiana was a perect example of unneeded travel, carrying the snow birds to Florida. Its equipment was quickly reassigned to more important duties and it disappeared from the timetables, never to return under that name. The trivia point is this: it had possibly the all time shortest lifespan of any named passenger train in the U. S. [/qb][/QUOTE]Hey, Bill, that's a great bit of trivia. And guess what: I have a schedule for the Dixiana in my December 1941 OG [scanned copy]! Just for the record, it was due to begin operations Jan. 1, 1942 and operate every third day. It left Dearborn Station at 8:00 p.m. and arrived Miami bright and early at 7:00 a.m. (two nights out). Anyone think it ought to be posted? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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