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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by palmland: [qb] Why not just change to GN's Western Star schedule - 2 nights out : overnight between Chgo-St. Paul and Spokane-Seattle, mid afternoon both directions for Glacier. With late evening departures, early morning arrivals, no problem with connections. [/qb][/QUOTE]Why not? That is about what was done with the City of New Orleans. The current schedule bears little resemblance to either the City of New Orleans or the Panama Limited's schedules of the good days of Illinois Central. It is more like a somewhat speeded up Louisiane, which from Memphis north, at least, did carry significant passenger volumes, particularly in coach. The ICRR Louisiane carried large volumes of mail and other head end traffic and had quite a few more stops than today's train, but otherwise it was much like today's train, overnight between Memphis and Chicago with a mid afternoon arrival and late morning departure at New Orleans. In fact, it would seem good to make the current schedule even more like that of the Louisiane, leaving Memphis northbound early enough to make a start of the business day arrival in Chicago and southbound to arrive in Memphis about an hour later. If I am going to Memphis Central Station I would much rather be doing it at 8:00pm than at 10:00pm. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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