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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by PwdOpd To Artmark: I was long gone before they started to combine the City trains. How service was then, I do not know. I only knew how they did 1947 to 1955, and then it really was one of the best. Paul [/quote] Ya know I wish I had ridden more UP trains. I wasn't around until 1950 so I can only remember the dome car era. I worked as a fireman for about a year on the CNW Galena Division. All the older engineers I had worked with remembered working the Cities Trains, and spoke of them with fondness. One of the gateman at North Western Station was a former dining car steward. He told me great stories about those trains. He said west of Omaha he would walk up to the engine with a whole pie and coffee for the engine crew. The engineer and fireman would sit on the left hand side eating, and the dining car steward would run the engine. I'm sure the UP trains were right up there at the top, but from what I know and like, as the world relates to Mitch, I'd have to put the UP trains 5 or 6 times out from the top. After visiting this thread over the last day I've thought of a brief list: Century/Broadway (Theye're tied) Super Chief The Yankee Clipper of 1930 and the Merchants Limited (All parlor car PULLMAN operatde) The Panama Limited (Clean and crisp to the end) The Twin Cities 400 (Great consist and car layout for daytime train) The Daylight (As good as the 400, but I worked for the CNW, and only could fantasize what a date with a California girl would be like, and I'm not tall) The UP Cities Trains (It was the Es and the Dome diner that was UP's "Ohio" in this election, but the obs car was in the middle) The Denver Zephyr (What a clean, colorful, well laid out and fast train it was with great food) The Hiawatha (Fast, Super Dome, Skytop parlor, friendly crews) North Shore's Electroliner (5 a day each way, punctual, fast, convenient, and had a tavern lounge. The North Shore sold and accepted interline tickets so they're in this game. Imagine Acela leaving New York on the Flushing Line and you'd have today's 'Liner) Mitch
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