passengerfan wrote: Sorry Al No Cigar.Al - in - Stockton
Sorry Al No Cigar.
Al - in - Stockton
Still no cigar Al.
No cigar for J. Edgar either.
Sorry Sunset Limited not correct nor is Hogwarts Express but my grandson enjoyed the latter.
Panama Limited?
I believe it may have been the Santa Fe's Chief (not Super Chief). Chair cars were added to the formerly all Pullman Chief in 1954.
If not the Chief two other trains come to mind but I don't know the year that coaches were adde to them. They are the B&O's Capitol Limited and the NYC's Commodore Vanderbilt.
Mark
Gee guys I really thought when I returned to the computer this AM someone would have guessed but not the case. This all new streamliner was all Pullman for a brief 59 days only before coaches were added. Hope that helps.
Wow, only 59 days! I am obviously way off base with my answers and haven't a clue on this one. I'll just have to wait anxiously to hear the correct answer.
Silver Meteor?
Well J. Edgar and Al are both no closer to a cigar. One more hint the train operates today over most of its former route but with a far different name under Amtrak.
passengerfan wrote: Well J. Edgar and Al are both no closer to a cigar. One more hint the train operates today over most of its former route but with a far different name under Amtrak. Al - in - Stockton
Was it the Broadway Limited and regardless, does your definition of "streamlined" include slab-sided lightweight (ca. 1950), or is it limited to rolling stock with fluted stainless-steel siding??
Still no cigar. My definition of streamlined is lightweight cars without clerestory roofs or monitor roofs built beginning in the late thirties and the final lightweight streamlined trains are yet to be built.
I already mentioned the Silver Meteor. Is it the Silver Star? Even the baggage car is fluted.
Still no cigar. One more hint.The train never ran east of Chicago.
THE CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR??
Still no cigar.
This is a twofer WAG but was it either the Lark or the Owl whose routes today are run by Amtrak's Cascades.
I don't know for sure but I seem to recall that at one time one or the other of these SP trains were all Pullman.
Passengerfan hasn't excluded the possiblity that the train could be [have been] a daytime train. If it were all parlor car or daytime drawing rooms, it could have all Pullman passenger car stock. I'm exhausted, I can't even cough up any decent WAG's. G'nite and good luck, folks. - a.s.
It was not a parlor car train and was definitely overnight.
How about ATSF's California Limited
or IC's Panama Limited
I don't know I'm just geussing now.
Still no Cigar.
Al - Stockton
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