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[quote user="ZephyrOverland"]That's the train I was looking for. The New York-Pinehurst Carolina Golfer ran for two seasons, 1929-1930 and 1930-1931. I was not aware about the NS operation from Southern Pines to Pinehurst since the contemporary ads in the Official Guide show it as a SAL operation[/quote] I failed to really examine the timetables yesterday before I pointed out that the train used the NS track to get into Pinehurst. The junction was at Aberdeen, not Southern Pines--and
The Best Western Pioneer Square is about the closest hotel to the station. The hotel does not have a restaurant, but it does provide a light breakfast, which we have found to be good. You can check baggage on the train to Vancouver. I don't know how Customs handles it northbound; we checked it once southbound, and US Customs inspected it in Vancouver. Johnny
[quote user="william6"] Hi again, Another suggestion I have is to be in the sleeping car on Amtrak from Milwaukee to Seattle. Your trip will be much more enjoyable that way. And NOW is not too early to make those sleeping car reservations. You'll get better prices when you book this far in advance. Downside is that you'll have to pay for the tickets now also. Bill [/quote]Bill did not tell us that when you travel in a sleeper, the cost of breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included;
[quote user="ZephyrOverland"]Southern Pines was on the Seabord main line, a station I used on occasion when stationed at Fort Bragg, but I never heard of a branch line to nearby Pinehurst. [/quote] Looking at two Guides I have near my computer, one issued in 1944, and the other in 1950. I see the earlier SAL map showing a branch to Pinehurst; it was gone by 1950. Johnny
I think that the outlets were installed originally for such appliances as electric shaver, curling iron, etc., and it was not expected that passengers would have the large number of devices that need 110 volts that are now carried. On on trip, several years ago, we were recharging camera batteries, the attendant stopped by, saw the red light on the charger and asked (with a little terror in his voice), "What's that?" We calmed him down. Johnny
[quote user="wanswheel"] There was a New York to Pinehurst train called the Carolina Golfer during the 1929-30 winter season. [/quote]I just looked at the SAL and NS schedules in the January, 1930, issue of the Guide , and found that they show no SAL line into Pinehurst (though the map shows it)--but the NS carried the cars between the SAL and Pinehurst; SAL crews may have moved the trains on the NS, since 9.2 miles is not a long day's work. There was also a setout sleeper NY-Raleigh
[quote user="Mookie"]Same reason they put those gates around a cemetery. People are just dying to get in - and always around![/quote] And, there is a cemetary in Bristol, Tennessee, just across the state line from Bristol, Virginia; no one living in Virginia may be buried in it. Back to ESSO--my oldest brother began working for Standard of New Jersey (ESSO) when he finished his graduate school work, and he worked for the same corporation and its successors until he had to retire on account
Was the southern terminus a resort town in North Carolina? Johnny
[quote user="oltmannd"]If you look at NS's map of the Crescent Corridor (go to thefutureneedsus.com), you'll see that it is actually a network of lines that serve a corridor. None of those lines are double tracked, although there are some sections on some of the lines.[/quote] Don, are you up on how much of the double track has been abandoned? I have not been able to keep posted. I just looked at a 1956 map of the Southern (to refresh my memory) and saw what was then double track
[quote user="rjemery"]For east/west passenger traffic that stopped at North Philadelphia Station only, most of those trains also saw sections join or split off at Harrisburg for traffic from/to Philadelphia and/or Baltimore and Washington, DC. [/quote] Hmm, in all the PRR timetables that I saw I never did see a schedule that indicated that the trains that went through to NYC from the west had a section from Harrisburg to the 30th Street Station. Many did have a section that came off at
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