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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] For benefit of TRAINS subscribers, here is a link to the material noted by Mr. Palmland: [URL=http://trn.trains.com/Railroad%20News/News%20Wire/2012/10/Chicago%20New%20Oreans%20Pullman%20trips%20set.aspx]TRAINS Newswire[/URL] For "others", here is a brief passage: [i][list] [*]The company is planning departures from Chicago on Oct. 29 and Nov. 2, 6, 10, and 14. Return trips from New Orleans are scheduled on Oct. 31 and Nov. 4, 8, 12, and 16. Two types of accommodations are offered in the three lightweight sleeping cars: a standard bedroom for two with upper and lower berth for $1,950, and a master bedroom for two with a fixed lower double bed for $2,850. There is no single occupancy rate, but fares for the two October trips, designated as “training trips,” are 50 percent off[/i] [/list] Of interest is that even though there are Roomettes in several of the PRJ cars, such as their former L&N "Colorado Pine" 6-4-6, they are not being offered for sale. Likely they are for crew. Who knows if they were to let one "bail out" at Jackson (which they won't; the ASWC would "definitely frown" on such in view of PRJ's non-Agreement workforce), I'd bite for a "50 off" joyride in a Lower (return in line space on 58), New Orleans is simply a "turn off" with me. To continue, I have to question if Mr. Ellis and his comrades are completely certain where their equipment was assigned while in railroad revenue service. From my records of [URL=http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=155&t=12524&start=105#p1093882] consists[/URL], I find that the regularly assigned Obs cars, or at least until 1965 when I "left town to serve" were "Gulfport" and "Memphis". These cars, built for the first LW Panama in 1938, were configured 2BR 2CP 1DR Lng. Parlor Car seating was in a "straight" Parlor numbered 3351 and named "Mardi Gras". This was a HW Coach "heavily" rebuilt from the underframe up and had an exceptionally attractive "French Quarter" motif. Possibly the car PRJ has acquired that they have named "Pontchartrain Club" was assigned to the Panama/Magnolia Star operation during 1967 (or maybe even as early as 1965), but when I returned to Champaign during 1969 as a Viet-Nam vet to "finish what I had started" (translation: I dropped out June 1965, returned June 1969, graduated June 1970), the Magnolia Star was gone and the Panama was simply a Coach Sleeper train minus any Parlor or Obs. Finally, I think the noted PRJ car was assigned to the Chi-Stl Green Diamond (like the Wabash, an also ran; but they sure had the classic station in Springfield making Amtrak's "adequate" look like some Amshack), but it was never on the Panama any time I was in Champaign. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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