This Week At Amtrak 2007-05-10
May 10th, 2007
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- If you’re going to make a mistake, make an embarrassing one, don’t fool around with something trivial. In the last issue of TWA, a comment was made about the Silver Fleet of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which consisted of three daily trains. Two of those were named correctly, but, the third was named in haste instead of in accuracy. The Seaboard’s train between New York City, Atlanta, and Birmingham was the Silver Comet, not the name applied in the last TWA. It’s tough getting a fact wrong you’ve know your entire life because of a simple typo. Thanks to the many friends who caught the embarrassing error, and apologies to all.
- We know the Florida trains in pre-Amtrak days were always considered money-makers. Even up to the end the year before the advent of Amtrak, Seaboard Coast Line operated the Florida Special, a winter season, extra-fare train that always had good patronage. During the height of the Great Depression, this train and others of the Seaboard and Atlantic Coast Line would often run with extra scheduled sections.At the end of private passenger service, Seaboard Coast Line was operating daily into Florida from New York the Silver Meteor, Silver Star, Champion, Gulf Coast Special, and the Everglades.Between Jacksonville and New Orleans the Gulf Wind was operated, and between Chicago and Miami the City of Miami and South Wind alternated running one train on even days, and one train on odd days.
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