I'm pretty sure the train with the 14 Rmt sleeper is the Havana Special, a Washington-Jacksonville nearly-all-stops train of the Atlantic Coast Line, which swapped blocks of head end cars with other ACL trains at Rocky Mount NC. It was assigned an ACF-built 14 Rmt 2DR sleeper for NY-Miami service. A prewar 10 Rmt 5 DBR car was also carried New York-Tampa in the winter season. ACL did have some 21 Roomette cars as well.
The 14-2s were rebuilt to 7DBR/2DR cars for Florida Special service in the early 1960s. The Havana Special was renamed in 1962 and discontinued at the time of the FEC strike.
New Haven became part of the Penn Central in 1969. The former traction properties were gone from its holdings before that.
The Havana Special also carried a New York-WIlimngitn, N.C. 10-6 Pullman.
The new name was Gulf Coast Special. However, the through cars to Tampa did not last long; in April of 1967 I rode #76 from Tampa to Jacksonville, spending an uncomfortable night in an ACL heavyweight coach.
Johnny
Deggesty, you are close enough to ask the right question, and I did ride that train many times, also. The train I had in mind was the Everglades, which lost the reason for its name at the time of the Florida East Coast strike, when it changed from a Washigton - Miami local to a Washington - Jacksonville local, but kept its sleeper for a while. All before Amtrak was more than 47 years ago, and someone with ACL timetable can check on my memory.
Then the Conecticut Compnany was not sold directly to the State by the railroad but passed though other private hands?
daveklepperThen the Connecticut Company was not sold directly to the State by the railroad but passed though other private hands?
This depends on the legal status of the corporation that actually owned the Connecticut Company in 1976.
Obviously, the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad didn't survive being rolled into Penn Central. Just as Penn Central's railroad didn't survive being rolled into Conrail. The question is whether some "New Haven" corporate entity survived the loss of the 'steam railroad' assets but kept that portion of the transit portfolio (only three cities at that point) through to its acquisition by local or State entities. (Bridgeport runs its own; I don't know if that city's system was conveyed to Connecticut Transit first and only later to the local organization).
I had never thought the "New Haven" survived the forced marriage into PC as its own owning corporation, but there are other examples where a railroad corporation would shuck its railroad assets (American Premier Underwriters of course being one example) or a rail manufacturer would diversify away (Alco Products) so I'm reluctant to correct Mr. Klepper on that point without knowing much harder fact.
Dave was close with his first answer. The corporate remains of the Connecticut Company were sold by theNew Haven in 1962. The other former interurban property sold in 1958 to a different buyer was the Berkshire Street Railway, by that time the operator of the Pittsfield bus system.
Johnny was on the right track and should take the next question. I was just looking for the 14 Rmt sleeper... Both the Everglades and the Gulf Coast Special survived to April 30, 1971.
I am not certain about the full history of the Everglades--its name indicates that it was operated to south Florida, but from 1951 on it ran no farther south than Jacksonville.
Another different configuration for sleepers was peculiar to the Pennsylvania--the duplex room/bedroom arrangement--which was used on at least one other road, in connection with the PRR. In April of 1967, there was one operated on a train that the PRR handled for a part of its journey. Name the primary road and the train.
I forgot the name of the train, but I believe it is the NY - Roanoke via Hagerstown PRR - N&W train. The Shenendoa (sp?)?
No, Dave, it was not the New York-Roanoke Pullman--which had no name, and was gone bwfore 1967. It was a train that had several Pullmans on it.
Was it seasonal? Did the other railroad own the cars, or were they PRR?
I would say that the the PRR still owned the cars. The train was operated year-round, but the consist changed with the seasons.
The Federal? Through cars with the New Haven.
The listing for the Federal inclued almost every type of accommodation but did not include duplex single rooms.
Who has consists for the South Wind? (PRR-L&N-ACL but the cars I'm remembering being 4-roomette (!) painted Northern Pacific (!!) in the late '50s.) I don't think you can say there is a 'principal' railroad for that train, though...
Overmod Who has consists for the South Wind? (PRR-L&N-ACL but the cars I'm remembering being 4-roomette (!) painted Northern Pacific (!!) in the late '50s.) I don't think you can say there is a 'principal' railroad for that train, though...
"The initial consist was baggage-dorm-coach No. 6700;
60-seat coaches 4022–4023;
48-seat diner No. 4518;
60- seat coaches 4020 and 4021;
16-seat dinette-buffet-35-seat lounge No. 1126."
http://passengertrainjournal.com/prr-south-wind/
L&N No. 295 Pulling the South Wind in 1942
Jones 3D Modeling Club https://www.youtube.com/Jones3DModelingClub
The most likely answer to your question, then, is one of the three railroads to the south interchanging with the PRR in Washington, the Sourthern, ACL, and SAL. But the latter two interchanged via the RF&P, and you did not indicate a third railroad involved. So the Southern would be my first choice. The all-Pullman Crescent? But that would also involve the two West Point railroads and the L&N. Unless the car came off at Atlanta.
The other possibility is the Penn Texas and then the MP Texas Eagle, interchange at St. Louis.
Dave, you are getting on the right track. The train, however, was not an all-Pullman train. I would say it was the creation of one railroad, but ran over other roads as well from origin to destination.
The most likely, the most patronized, the train with the patrons that would most appreciate it, would be the ACL's East Coast Chamiion, with PRR,RF&P, and FEC mileage under its wheels. And the ACL had the kind of passenger management that would go after an innovation, NY - Miami. But wait,by 1967, the East Coast Champion went ACL to Auburndale via Orlando, and the SAL to Miami, not FEC from Jacksonville. Also, had the SCL merger occured by then? But the ECC contined to Amtrak as far as I can remember. And the RF&P was still independent.
The original 1939 was coach-only, but it got sleepers right after WWII or erhas earlier. If my memory is correct.
Yes, Dave, it was the East Coast Champion that carried a PRR duplex room Pullman.
In 1943, the train was named the Tamiami Champion, and in the winter it ran in three secions--an all-coach section and a coach and Pullman section for Miami, and a coach and Pullman section for the West Coast. By 1951, the year-round train was running as entirely separate trains (each with its own name) for the East Coast and for the West Coast.
The SCL merger came, as I recall, 7/1/67. As you noted, the FEC was struck before then, and the ACL trains ran over the SAL between Auburndale and Miami.
The best-known and classic LIRR MUs were DC MP-54s, with some variations, including motors, trailers, control trailers, and combines. All combines had RR-roofs, but most motors and trailers, arch roofs. And subsequent MUS, both the prewar double-deckers, and the longer NY-State and PNYNJ-funded postward cars could all mu with them. But the first steel LIRR cars, also MUs, at first used with wood open-platform trailers previously used with steam, were not MP54s, could not mu with them, possibly had a joint service in mind that never existed, but did run in an another seasonal joint service, came on line a few years before the opening of Penn Station, may never have run into Penn Station, did visit Manhattan in a seasonal service. There was one very important difference between these cars and nearly all other steel railroad passenger cars, including MUs..
Describe what they were, as completely as possible, including who operated similar equipment.
The MP41 "Gibbs Car" was designed to operate (and did operate) in joint services with the IRT, which had similar cars also designed by Gibbs. The LIRR cars had traps and steps, but the IRT cars did not. Some were rebuilt with fishbelly underframes to allow for side doors.
Among other interesting features on the Gibbs cars were two-position third rail shoes designed to change between LIRR and IRT settings, using a cam section in the third rail.
daveklepperAnd just what was different about Gibbs cars that made them seldom if ever used in Penn Station service?
After a decade or more of control battles for streetcar franchises in this city, both major companies were charging less than five cents per ride, so both were losing money. By agreement with the city council, the bankrupt companies merged and traded a franchise with a guaranteed 6% rate of return for effective control by the city's Transit Commission. The company operated for several decades before the city assumed direct control. Name the city.
The city took over after bus conversion. One city that meets the desciption is Scranton, PA.
Scranton never dipped below the industry standard 5 cent mark. This city did, and one of the lines used its lower fare in its name for a while.
Where's Penny? This has gotta be Cleveland.
Well, Brooklyn was a separae city before unification of the city in 1897, and Brooklyn United - Brooklyn Rapid Transit did end up running all the streetcar lines - Except possibly Von Brundt Street, possibly, but definitely the Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line.
But that is not what you are looking for, because by that time Unification of the City had taken place, and there seven or eight streetcar companies counting all boroughs.
Aain, as a help, I assume municipal ownership occured after bus conversion.
Overmod Where's Penny? This has gotta be Cleveland.
Cleveland, like Chicago, got "settlement ordinances" around 1907, which required streetcar franchises to include provisions for operating to the expanded city limits. With both companies already operating at substantial losses, the time was right for the City to set direction.
Hanna's "Big Con" (for "Conslidation") and Johnson's "Little Con" were both products of mergers and purchases.
Only two transit properties and then one? What about Shaker Heights Rapid Transit, which also operated in Cleveland, and did provide service within Cleveland as well as in Shaker Heigts?
But OK anyway, and streetcars did continue after 1942, even including the purchase of post-WWII PCCs, later sold to Toronto and made mu.
Look forward to OM's question.
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