City of Portland
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
How about the MeadowLark
I don't if this is even a train it just sound good.
One last clue 2 and 1/2 consists were built brand new by Pullman Standard postwar and they were by all accounts two of the finest All Pullman train sets ever constructed. When coaches were added after 59 days to the consists they were of 1937 vintage but still streamlined and there were two coaches per consist initially.
Al - in - Stockton
Niether answer is correct.
KCSfan has come the closest, in fact real close.
how about MoPac's Texas Eagle
or ATSF's Southwest Chief
I don't know still guessing.
Still no Cigar.
Al - Stockton
How about ATSF's California Limited
or IC's Panama Limited
I don't know I'm just geussing now.
It was not a parlor car train and was definitely overnight.
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.
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.
Mark
Still no cigar.
THE CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR??
Still no cigar. One more hint.The train never ran east of Chicago.
I already mentioned the Silver Meteor. Is it the Silver Star? Even the baggage car is fluted.
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.
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
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.
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??
Silver Meteor?
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.
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.
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.
Panama Limited?
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