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Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled.	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doodlebug: [QB] The pre-Amtrak [i]Silver Star[/i] was my favorite train even though it was the Seaboard's No.2 streamliner between New York and Miami. The [i]Silver Meteor[/i] had the Sun Lounge car and kept its round-end observation car its entire non-Amtrak life while the [i]Star's[/i] observation car ran near the front of the train after it was equipped with a diaphragm that destroyed its elegant look. But the reason the [i]Star[/i] was my favorite was because it was the train that the Hamlet (N.C.) High School glee club took to Miami for our three-day Nassau cruise my senior year in 1969. Because Hamlet was basically a Seaboard company town, the railroad provided us a private coach for our overnight trip. When the southbound train arrived in Hamlet about 9:30 p.m., the downtown switcher job cut our car into the consist and away we went. The highlight of the trip was breakfast in the coach diner the next morning -- heavy silverware, sweating pitchers of cold orange juice, white tablecloths. Almost as good, however, was waiting in the vestibule for a table to open up, enjoying the breeze through the open top of the Dutch door while train flew fast and straight through central Florida farmland. All I remember from the northbound trip a few days later was suffering from sunburn. [/QB][/QUOTE]