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From the Midwest to Florida By Rail 1875-1979 Vol 1 C&EI, IC, PRR, L&N, NC&StL
From the Midwest to Florida by Rail 1875-1979 Vol 1 by Chuck Blardone with Myron Bilas, Larry Goolsby, Lyle Key and Theodore Kornweibel Jr
Hard Cover
Copyright 2014
520 pages
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME 1
Introduction 9
Before You Read10
Abbreviations 11
CHAPTER 1
Overview and Map13
CHAPTER 2
The Dixie Trains - 1908-1965 29
Early Dixie Route Operation33
Dixie Flyer42
Dixie Limited98
Dixie Express 128
The Dixieland 136
Dixie Flagler 150
Dixiana 177
"New" Dixieland 179
CHAPTER 3
IC Route 187
The Seminole 192
The Floridan 235
City of Miami 252
The Sunchaser303
CHAPTER 4
PRR309
South Atlantic Limited314
The Southland321
The Florida Arrow382
South Wind405
The Jacksonian 454
CHAPTER 5
L&N, Monon, and M&O458
The First to Florida: Louisville Great Southern . 463
Monon465
L&N Pensacola Service 470
L&N Cincinnati/St. Louis-Tampa 478
NC&StL Quickstep481
M&O St. Louis-Jacksonville 485
St. Louis-Jacksonville Express487
The Flamingo 493
The Georgian514
Bibliography 516
VOLUME 2
Chapter 1
Big Four, NYC, Q&C and SR
Florida Limited
Chicago & Florida Special
World's Fair Special
Royal Palm/Second Royal Palm/Royal Palm de Luxe/Royal Palm Special
Suwanee River Special
Ohio Special
Ponce de Leon
Land of the Sky/Skyland Special
Western North Carolina Special
Florida Sunbeam
New Royal Palm
CHAPTER 2
Frisco
Kansas City-Florida Special
The Sunnyland (includes Pensacola service) Frisco's The Southland
CHAPTER 3
FEC Through Car Connections, 1888-1963
CHAPTER 4
Amtrak
South Wind
Auto Train
Floridan
CHAPTER 5
Stations
Jim Crow
Maps
Yearly Summary
CHAPTER 6
Shadow Service, 1923-32. with Map (Midwest-East Coast-Florida)
Artwork
"Running Late out of Central," by Larry Fisher
"Birmingham Station," by Robert West
"Jacksonville's Leading Ladies," by Tony Howe
"All Roads Lead to Jacksonville," by Larry Fisher
"Florida Thunder," by Tony Howell
"Snowbirds," by Tim Garner
1940 South Wind, five drawings of loco and cars, by Chuck Blardone
"Florida Sunbeam on the Rat Hole Division," by Howard Fogg
"If McKee's Hollow Could Talk," by Ron Flanary
"From the Windy City," by Mitch Markovitz
"Dinner in a Diner with Miss Minix," by Mitch Markovitz
"Train to the Tropics;' by Mitch Markovitz
"To the Land of Palms," by Mitch Markovitz
References
Hard Cover
Copyright 2014
520 pages
Vol 1 C&EI, IC, PRR, L&N, NC&StL, Monon, M&O
My initial intention was to compose this book as mainly a narrative, with a few typical schedules and consists for the major trains. This concept soon showed to be impractical, as train names
and numbers varied from year-to-year and railroad-to-rail. There are so many variables to consider in writing a detailed account of Midwest-Florida train service that by necessity I included schedules and lists of cars, which are not only easier to read, but pack much more information per square inch of paper. I have striven to present what I consider to be the most important facts, which should proanswers to most readers' questions.
FONTS
When reading train schedules, the portion of the schedule of the featured train is in a heavier, different font than that describing connecting service.
WHICH CITIES ARE "MIDWEST"?
Midwest-Florida passenger train services fanned out in waves over time, starting in the last third of the nineteenth century, when Cincinnati was as far as one was able to travel on a through train from Florida. Around 1900-1910 through train service was extended farther, to cities such as Chicago and Kansas City. Concurrently, a myriad of sleeping car routes increased the number of cities where travelers could board a Pullman that was surrounded by 'snow and cold and remain in that car until they stepped off in warmth and sunshine in Jacksonville, Sarasota or Miami. In order to show this progression, I have considsome important southern cities such as Nashville and eastern cities such as Cincinnati to be "Midwest?' Cover-
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