Multi-unit Diners

[Deggesty]

I agree with Mark. The City of New Orleans carried only single-unit diners. I really do not know how well patronized they were except during the weeks before Mardi Gras, when many people went to New Orleans for the the celebrations. In the early sixties, the lounge car would be cut off in Jackson except during January and February, reducing the cost of using NOUPT. This train had, for many years, high passenger loadings, many of whom were people from up North who were visiting their families who still lived in the South. (This reminds me of the last time I went through Atlanta--I stepped off and watched as it looked as though half the city of Atlanta was detraining from the coaches.)

I do not remember if the Panama still had the twin-unit diner when I rode it from Chicago to Carbondale in late 1968.  

[Deggesty]

No, it is Pullman608 with whom I agree. Even at this hour (10:30 in the morning),my short-term memory is not working at it should be.

[rcdrye]

IC's twin-units were assigned to the Panama and the City of Miami.